Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What Ever Happened to the Amazon Rainforest?

Red Howler Monkey in the Amazon

Fifty years ago, the Amazon was still largely intact. Then in 1964, Brazil passed a law to encourage landless peasants to leave the slums and develop the interior. Anyone who could demonstrate that land was being put to "effective use" would get a title to it. As a result, the native forest-dwellers began to be displaced, and newcomers started clearing large areas for cattle production and rubber tapping.

[Photograph by: Rhett Butler/Mongabay]
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