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KIEV Adidas NMD City Sock Mens For Sale , Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank (WB) supports farmland reform in Ukraine, which envisages the cancellation of the country's ban on the farmland trade, a senior official at the bank said on Thursday.


"According to our estimates, this can give an impetus to the development of the country," Satu Kahkonen Adidas NMD City Sock Womens For Sale , the bank's country director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, said at the Ukrainian Financial Forum in the southern city of Odessa.


The WB hopes that the Ukrainian authorities will take necessary steps to launch the reform by the end of November, Kahkonen added.


The liberalization of the land market is a highly controversial issue in Ukraine. Its supporters claim that the ban limits the rights of about 6.9 million Ukraine's land plot owners to dispose of their property.


Meanwhile, critics claim that small landowners may lose their plots once the ban is lifted as big agricultural firms may manage to take away their farmland.


The Ukrainian Agriculture Ministry estimated the market value of Ukraine's farmland of 42 million hectares Adidas NMD City Sock Shoes For Sale , of which 32 million hectares are arable, at nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars.


In 2001, Ukraine adopted a land code and reviving a ban on farmland trade, which was first imposed in 1992. Since 2001, the Ukrainian authorities has been prohibited the country's land owners from selling their plots.


The International Monetary Fund also has recommended Ukraine lift the ban to attract additional funds to the state budget Adidas NMD City Sock For Sale , but Ukrainian lawmakers rejected the idea, worried Ukraine's small landowners may lose their plots due to corruption.


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LONDON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Marine biologists in London started an annual survey on Monday of the Thames Estuary to count the number of seals living in Britain's most famous waterway.


Experts from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) will scour the estuary for seals as part of a new action plan to protect the Thames' iconic marine mammals.


In the 1950s, seals were almost extinct from the Thames Adidas NMD Trail Mens For Sale , but a clean-up drive has seen their numbers steadily grow.


It is now even possible for tourists crossing London's famous bridges to spot a seal heading along the Thames in search of food.


One seal, named Sammy, has even become a marine celebrity as he pays regular visits to Billingsgate Fish Market near Canary Wharf, enjoying fish thrown to him by porters in the market.


Experts see the seal colonies along the estuary and in the river as a clear sign the Thames has become cleaner.


The biologists from ZSL, the international conservation charity Adidas NMD Trail Womens For Sale , will be checking the shorelines and sandbanks along the Thames to carry out their latest population counts for harbor seals and grey seals.


"As well as monitoring seal numbers, ZSL's conservationists will be looking for evidence of how other factors including health threats, coastal development and inter-species behaviors are affecting these marine mammal populations," said a ZSL spokesman.


ZSL's estuaries and wetlands conservation manager Anna Cucknell said: "Last year's survey estimated populations of 964 harbour seals and 1,552 grey seals across the estuary Adidas NMD Trail Shoes For Sale , so it will be interesting to see how these numbers have changed."


The animal faces serious conservation threats, she said, from health threats like phocine distemper virus, which devastated UK seal populations in 2002; to threats from construction and dredging projects; to inter-species competition for food and territory.


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