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Brazil's recent fight against deforestation has been a huge success
2014-06-14 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: All eyes are on Brazil right now because of the World Cup. But there's another Brazil story that deserves just as much attention -- over the last decade, the country has made surprising strides in slowing the destruction of its rainforests. The deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon was one of the biggest ecological disasters of the 20th century. Starting in the 1960s, farmers and cattle ranchers began clearing and burning wide swaths of Brazil's rainforest for land. Between 1979 and 2005, Brazil...
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