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Smarter Farming Key to Saving Amazon Rainforest (www.washingtonpost.com)

Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender. At the government-run... More

Tags: brazil,rainforest,deforestation,ranchers

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Jobs, economics complicate Brazil's Amazon fight (www.fox11az.com)

Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend. The thick Amazon rain-forest canopy suddenly... More

Tags: brazil,jobs,enviromental police,fines,copenhagen,cattle,cows,ranchers

Submitted 3 months ago by codydamon | 0 Comments |

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