Rain Forest Is Losing Ground Faster in Amazon, Photos Show
Rain Forest Is Losing Ground Faster in Amazon, Photos Show
By TONY SMITH
Published: Saturday, June 28, 2003
SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 27 ? Newly released satellite images show that the Amazon rain forest is disappearing at an increasing rate, with about 10,000 square miles lost mainly to pasture land, soybean plantations and illegal logging in the 12-month period that ended last August.
The government said on Thursday that the area represented a 40 percent rise in deforestation compared with a year earlier, when about 7,000 square miles of rain forest were lost.
It was the fastest acceleration in the loss in the Amazon forest, the world's largest continuous area of rain forest, since the same 12-month period in 1994 and 1995, environmentalists said.
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