Environment-Ecology-Forestry

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Green areas indicate that there was more vegetation in the region than the average of the past four years. Not surprisingly, these areas correlate well with the early breeding grounds of the locusts near the interface between dry desert land and wetter coastal land. </div> <bR> <div> <B>(</B><A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Locust Outbreak in Northern and Western "><U><B>Click here to</B></U></A><A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Locust Outbreak in Northern and Western "><U><B> learn </B></U></A><A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Locust Outbreak in Northern and Western "><U><B>more</B></U></A><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>EEF-Switzerland</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Maison Passaplan</B></div> <div> <B>1651 Villarvolard</B></div> <div> <B>Switzerland</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Tel: (41-26) 915.0180</B></div> <div> <B>Mobile; (41-79) 216.5233</B></div> <div> <B>Fax: (41-26) 915.0180</B></div> <div> <B>E-mail: ecology@mcnet.ch</B></div> <bR> <div> Working Towards the Goal of Sustainable Economic Development, Environmental Conservation and security</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>