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May 19, 2005
Global Crisis as Rainforest Loss Soars

New Thinking Needed on Rainforest Conservation

Amazon rainforest loss increased some six percent in 2004 to near record levels - as ranchers, soybean farmers and loggers burned and cut down a near-record area of 10,088 square miles of ancient rainforest ecosystems. Rainforest deforestation and diminishment is spiraling out of control wherever the World's last ecologically and evolutionarily rich rainforests are found - and particularly in the world's last large rainforest wildernesses found in Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Papua New Guinea.

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Brazil Amazon destruction slows
President Lula says the economy can grow while saving the AmazonBrazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has welcomed new figures showing that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has decreased by 25%.

President Lula said this had prevented the release of millions of tonnes of CO2 gas into the atmosphere. The government says environmental policies, including measures against illegal logging, have had an effect.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6944808.stm