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Deforestation: Carving up the Amazon

2014-05-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature: Next to a newly paved highway in the Peruvian Amazon, a discreet white-on-green sign urges travellers to protect the surrounding ecosystem. Let's care for the environment, let's conserve the forest, it reads. But the appeal comes too late for this spot in the region known as Madre de Dios. Before the route was paved a few years ago, tall trees lined the roadside, but the forest edge here now lies about half a kilometre away, beyond a jumble of underbrush and freshly cut trees where a cattle pasture...

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