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A new Amazon land grab?

In Uncategorized on May 22, 2009 at 5:25 pm

A law expected to be approved by Brazil’s Congress granting 1.2 million people and numerous companies titles to a huge chunk of the Amazon rain forest could provoke a new wave of land-grabbing and deforestation, conservationists warn.

Read the full story at Reuters