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Planet Ark World Environment News - in partnership with Colonial First State Brazilian Farm Workers Clearing Amazon Forest for Pasture

Date: 09-Dec-04
Country: BRAZIL
Author: Rickey Rogers RR/HB

Brazilian Farm Workers Clearing Amazon Forest for Pasture Photo: RICKEY ROGERS
Photo: RICKEY ROGERS

Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the world's leading polluters, a long-delayed government report showed on December 8, 2004.

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