Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon continues to rise; clearing highest near Belo Monte dam site

Mongabay: Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon continues to rise; clearing highest near Belo Monte dam site Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2009-May 2011. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continued to rise as Brazil's Congress weighed a bill that would weaken the country's Forest Code, according to new analysis by Imazon. Imazon's near-real time deforestation tracking system found that 165 square kilometers (103 square miles) of forest was cleared last month, a 72 percent rise over......

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