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Deforestation jumps in Peru
2014-12-04 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon increased significantly last year, says a top official. Speaking to the press at U.N. climate change talks in Lima, Gustavo Suarez de Freitas of MINAM, Peru's environment ministry, said 145,000 hectares of rainforest was cleared last year, a sharp increase over the average of 113,000 hectares per year since 2001. Suarez de Freitas attributed most of that loss to agriculture. The remarks come nearly a year and a half since Peru released an assessment of recent...
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