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Brazil touts progress in reducing deforestation, but fails to note recent jump in clearing

2013-06-06 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Today in a press release for the U.N.'s World Environment Day, the Brazilian government highlighted a sharp drop in deforestation since 2012. The trouble is, the South American superpower failed to acknowledge what appears to be a sharp rise in Amazon forest loss since last year, reports Greenpeace. In a post on the government's official blog, Brazil congratulated itself for an 84 percent decline in Amazon deforestation between August 2011 and July 2012 relative to 2004, the year that it enacted...

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