August 6th, 2009
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Though Brazil has pledged to slow Amazon deforestation, and several groups are making headlines trying to tackle the leading cause of that deforestation, cattle ranching, AFP reports new data from Brazil’s <a href="http://www.inpe.br/ingles/index…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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