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COPYRIGHT 2001 Society for the Advancement of Education
A $40,000,000,000 onslaught of highways, railroads, hydroelectric projects, and burgeoning population is overwhelming efforts to promote conservation in the Amazon forest of Brazil. If left unchecked, it will soon destroy the greatest tropical rainforest on Earth, experts warn. The well-intentioned conservation programs now under way in the Amazon are wholly inadequate to offset the destruction from agriculture, timber, and mining that are taking place in the name of economic development, a study by researchers from Oregon State University,the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Michigan State University, and National Institute for Amazonian Research found.
"We've heard a lot about ecotourism, sustainable...
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