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A project to reduse Amazon forest to 50% of its size!!!

Anonyme, Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 00:45
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The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size.

The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock. All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large multinational companies.

The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region is prone to constant floods. At this time more than160,000 square kilometres deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and in the process of becoming deserts.

Deforestation and the subsequent processing of the woodchips on this scale will also release huge amounts of carbon, which is currently locked up in the wood, back into the atmosphere worsening the problem of climate change. We just cannot let this happen.

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