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Matt Preece

BBC News - Brazil considers relaxing code protecting the Amazon - 0 views

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  • be strengthened, not weakened. Robin Lustig reports from the Amazon.
  • Within the next few months, the Brazilian government is going to have to decide whether to approve proposals to relax the Forest Code, which is designed to protect the Amazon rainforest. Farmers and agricultural businesses want to be allowed to cultivate more of their land, but environmentalists say the code should
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  • Matt Preece on 24 May 12
     
    Video of the Brazilian government and deforestation
Sarah Herten

BBC - Bruce Parry's Amazon - About The Journey - Cowboys and Land-grab - 0 views

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  • Emily Kaaresmaa on 03 Jun 12
     
    Bruce mucked in at a cattle ranch near Altamira, wrestling cows, inoculating calves, and having a brave (some might say foolish) attempt at rodeo. Cattle farming is big business in the Amazon - there are three times more cattle in the legal Amazon than there are people (64 million in 2003), and ranching is on the increase. It's a profitable enterprise because land prices are so low: pasture in the Amazon was five times lower than land around Sao Paolo in 2000. Most cattle produced are eaten elsewhere in Brazil, not locally in the Amazon, and Brazil is the world's top exporter, shipping over $3 billion worth of beef in 2006 and supplying nearly every country, including the UK. Cattle-ranching is a major factor in the deforestation of the Amazon. Most ranches are highly mechanised, and employ on average one person per 400 acres. Ranching may increase further in the future with the World Bank considering a loan of $90 million to increase beef capacity in Para - the Brazilian state of the eastern Amazon.
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