Brazil's new environment minister has drawn a bleak future for the Amazon rain forest.
Carlos Minc said satellite photos from April revealed deforestation had reached a Amazon 'needs middle way' ...
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Ex-Siemens chief fingered in corruption probe ... new record high, with more than 1,100 square kilometres lost. In March, it was just one eighth that number with the large discrepancy due partly to the fact that cloud cover obstructed photographs in March. Minc said that if the current rate continued, then more rain forest would be destroyed than last year. The environment ministry declared that it would confiscate cattle from farmers whose livestock graze on illegally-cleared land.
(Deutsche Welle)
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