Brazil to Crack Down on Deforestation

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)