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For example, by the mid-1990s, cattle pasture land in Honduras took up over 40 percent of the country's fertile land.
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more than 60 percent of deforested land ends up as cattle pasture.
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attle have low maintenance costs and are highly liquid assets easily brought to market.
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TROPICAL RAINFORESTS : Imperiled Riches-Threatened Rainforests Cow in the Pantanal, a giant wetland south of the Amazon. Click image for more pictures. (Photo by R. Butler) By Rhett Butler | Last updated July 22, 2012 The majority deforestation in the Amazon Basin since the 1960s has been caused by cattle ranchers and land speculators who burned huge tracts of rainforest for pasture.