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Amazon faces renewed risk from cattle [1]

Rising foreign demand for beef and soybeans will tempt Brazil to clear more of the Amazon rainforest, in a reversal of recent success in slowing forest losses, a study said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
06/04/2013
Age (Australia) [2]
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Amazon [3], Brazil [4], Forests [5], Deforestation [6], Cattle [7], Soyabean [8], Agriculture [9]
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