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Soybean Accelerates Brazil's Deforestation

Written by Aloísio Milani
Wednesday, 12 January 2005
The Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) and the Brazilian NGO Forum published a study demonstrating a relationship between the expansion of areas of soybean cultivation and the deforestation of native forests in Brazil, especially in the middle and north of the state of Mato Grosso. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 14889 Comments (1) Subscribe to this comment's feed sick written by Guest, August 03, 2005 If you want to take a good look at the amount of damage caused to the rainforests download the free version of Google Earth at earth.google.com .I had no idea deforestation was this bad, after seeing the images by accident after zooming up. i went online and found this website. PLEASE SPREAD these images so that others can see. ty. report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0 Write comment Name Email Website Title Comment smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) Write the displayed characters Powered by Azrul's Jom Comment for Joomla!

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