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  #1 johanna Velasquez on 19 Oct 09

   

  The government of Brazil has unveiled a plan to slow deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by more than 70 percent between 2008 and 2018-a move that will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly.
  
  The plan, announced December 1, 2008 by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Carlos Minc, is the first time Brazil has set specific goals to reduce or slow down deforestation due to farming, ranching and illegal logging in the largest expanse of tropical rainforest on Earth.
  
  Deforestation Increases Global Warming, Destroys Medicinal Plants
  Amazon deforestation releases an estimated 400 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year-whether from farmers and ranchers burning trees to clear more land or from rotting wood that is part of the natural forest cycle-making Brazil the world's sixth largest emitter of the greenhouse gas.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The government of Brazil has unveiled a plan to slow deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by more than 70 percent between 2008 and 2018-a move that will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly. <br /> <br /> The plan, announced December 1, 2008 by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Carlos Minc, is the first time Brazil has set specific goals to reduce or slow down deforestation due to farming, ranching and illegal logging in the largest expanse of tropical rainforest on Earth. <br /> <br /> Deforestation Increases Global Warming, Destroys Medicinal Plants <br /> Amazon deforestation releases an estimated 400 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year-whether from farmers and ranchers burning trees to clear more land or from rotting wood that is part of the natural forest cycle-making Brazil the world's sixth largest emitter of the greenhouse gas.</div>

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