Brazil to Crack Down on Deforestation

By MARCO SIBAJA, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Environment

In this 2006 file photo released by Agencia Brasil, a burned area of the Amazon rain forest is seen in Para, Brazil. Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Marcello Casal, Agencia Brasil)

(AP) -- Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.

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Posted by IAMoraes 01/25/08 12:37

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"Brazil to Crack Down on Deforestation"?!?! NO, they won't. It will never happen. The crackdown is on poor people. 20 per cent of the Amazon forest has vanished in 40 years and no one has the remotest idea where the money is... because it's nowhere. That takes a whole system designed exclusively for that end, and if something goes wrong, the poor get blamed in court and in the media.

Nothing has changed.

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Posted by SeymoreM_Athy 01/26/08 02:21

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I wonder if it's possible to get CO2 credit for having a forest that reduces harmful greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming and at the same time provide us humans with fresh oxygen to breath. I think that anything that can help reduce harmful gases and benefit the earth deserves some kind of credit, in the same way a company does for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that they create. Maybe than the poor people that lives in or around the forest areas wouldn't have to cut down the trees to provide food and shelter for their families..

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Posted by NanoStuff 01/27/08 23:19

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How could someone 'illegally' deforest 6000 square miles without anyone noticing?

"Shhh, be very quiet when logging the entire Amazon rainforest or you'll wake the security guard"