Brazil: Cattle a tough target in Amazon protection fight
By | Published: May 31, 2009
Reuters: The small plane is gliding over a mesmerizing landscape of green pasture interspersed by patches of forest, but Wayne Lindbergh keeps his eyes firmly glued to his laptop. Below, where a map on his screen indicates forest stood last year, bare soil is charred brown by recent burning, another example of the widespread illegal deforestation of the Amazon forest that environmentalists blame on cattle ranchers. "This is all new this year," says Lindbergh, a campaigner for the …
Brazil: Cattle a tough target in Amazon protection fight
Reuters: The small plane is gliding over a mesmerizing landscape of green pasture interspersed by patches of forest, but Wayne Lindbergh keeps his eyes firmly glued to his laptop. Below, where a map on his screen indicates forest stood last year, bare soil is charred brown by recent burning, another example of the widespread illegal deforestation of the Amazon forest that environmentalists blame on cattle ranchers. "This is all new this year," says Lindbergh, a campaigner for the …
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