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Pope Urges Brazilians to Conserve the Amazon
2013-07-30 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Pope Francis on Saturday asked the Catholic bishops of Brazil not to exploit the Amazon rainforest but instead make it into a garden. Marking the first overseas trip of the first pope from the Americas, the pontiff said the church is committed to the Amazon Basin over the long term. The Amazon rainforest extends across 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million sq miles) of the Amazon Basin. One in 10 known species in the world lives in the Amazon rainforest, which is threatened by human settlement....
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