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Reforestation contributed more than $5 billion to Brazils economy
2015-11-06 23:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazils Statistics Bureau, known as IBGE, says that reforestation and sustainable forest management provided the country with R$20.8 billion (about $5.5 billion) in revenue last year, according to The Rio Times. An IBGE study found that planting new trees and restoring deforested land contributed nearly four-fifths of that windfall, some R$16.1 billion ($4.27 billion). Sustainably produced forest products contributed another R$4.6 billion ($1.2 billion). The regions where reforestation projects...
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