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Is intensification helping the cattle industry go Amazon deforestation-free?
2016-01-14 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Though deforestation in Brazil has fallen sharply over the past decade, the production of beef and other cattle products continues to be a significant driver of forest destruction in the Amazon. In 2013, there were close to 60 million head of cattle in the Brazilian Amazon, nearly 200 percent more than in 1993, according to ZeroDeforestationCattle.org, a website created by the National Wildlife Federation, the Gibbs Land Use and Environmental Lab, and the University of Wisconsin. That massive growth...
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