National Public Radio: Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation rate there has fallen dramatically in recent years as clear-cutting of Amazonian jungle in eight other countries has started to rise. As a result, the 40 percent of Amazonia located in a moon-shaped arc of countries from Bolivia to Colombia to French Guiana faces a more serious threat than the jungle in Brazil. The culprits range from ranching to soybean farming, logging to infrastructure development...
URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/06/160171565/guess-whos-chopping-down-the-amazon-now
Enclosure: http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2012/09/20120906_atc_03.mp3?dl=1
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