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Global Forest Watch - Brazil - Brazil's Forests in Brief
Brazil’s Forest Brazil is the largest country in South America. Approximately 2.3 million square kilometers -- 27 percent of Brazil’s total area of 8.5 million square kilometers -- can be considered "frontier" forest. Brazil ...
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Brazil's Drought Polygon
Brazil's Drought Polygon Brazil's Drought Polygon The interior of Brasil's northeastern region is known as the Drought ... the sertão is low and irregular, and the interior is covered by a thin scrub forest known locally as the caatinga. The low and variable precipitation drives a cycle of torrential ...
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Brazil: About Brazil
Brazil About Brazil | Sustainable Forestry | Non-Timber Forest Products | Sustainable Tourism | Sustainable Agriculture | Species Profiles | Join Us! About Brazil Covering almost half of the South American continent, Brazil ... the Atlantic Forest). National Geographic Map Machine / plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ The Amazon River Basin alone accounts for about 40% of Brazil's national ...
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Ecotour - Brazilian Atlantic Forest - Una Canopy Walkway
Ecopark of Brazil Tel. +5573-633-1121 Email: info@ecoparque.org.br Website: http://www.ecoparque.org.br/english/english.htm © CI, Russell A. Mittermeier Atlantic Forest, Brazil © Andrew Young Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides), Atlantic Forest, Brazil Home | About CI | Support CI | CI Newsroom | CI Library | ...
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Global Forest Watch - Brazil - Brazil's Forests in Brief
Brazil: Initiatives · Brazil's Forests · Publications & Maps · News Support GFW in Brazil Brazil: Ongoing Initiatives Our overall objective: We seek to increase the effectiveness of forest management, land use practices and forest ...
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Brazil/Bolivia
Brazil/Bolivia Ecotourism Brazil/Bolivia VISITING THE HYACINTH OF BRAZIL AND BLUE-THROATED OF BOLIVIA Last August, several other macaw enthusiasts and I accompanied Dr. Charles Munn of the Wildlife Conservation Society to Brazil ... disturbed cerrado (a Brazilian term for open, short woodland) vegetation, gallery forest, and a tall cerrado forest. After another 17 miles of dirt road from Pocone, we ...
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Conservation International - Brazil
It also certainly helps that most of Brazil's northern half is covered by the Amazonia wilderness -- the largest tropical forest in the world -- which contains a ... less than 8 percent of that once-expansive forest remains today. Deforestation, rapid growth, and large-scale agriculture, are causing immeasurable damage to Brazil's environment. With their eye on global ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: FOREST COVER - World's Forests Continue to Shrink
We are losing not only forest area but some of our best forest stands. Africa lost 64 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2005, the greatest decline ... more than half of timber production in Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, and Cameroon. In addition to devastating forest ecosystems, illegal logging robs forest dwellers of their livelihoods, fuels social turmoil, and deprives ...
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ENN: Brazil "soy king" sees Amazon as food solution
Destruction Accelerating in Brazil Brazil Police Arrest 78 Officials and Businessmen in Crackdown on Illegal Logging /top_stories/article/35356 RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - More of the Amazon rain forest should be ... of 2007 were in Mato Grosso, a huge agricultural state in western Brazil still half covered by rain forest. Brazil's booming economy, soy farming and cattle ranching have put pressure ...
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brazil | Greenpeace UK
Tropical forest destruction is responsible for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to the energy sector. 75% of Brazil's emissions come from forest destruction, making ... year's Southern Ocean expedition on the Esperanza. Read more » Tags: amazon, brazil, antarctic, images, forest fires, awards, mining, slideshows, daniel beltra 0 comments | login or register to ...
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