The New York Times has reported that Operation Arc of Fire, Brazil's crackdown on illegal logging, has already issued almost $26 million in fines since the project began in February, following satellite data which revealed a surge in deforestation in the Amazon, the largest remaining rainforest in the world. Scientists estimate that around 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from tropical deforestation.Read the New York Times story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/world/americas/19brazil.html
Find out what can be done to save the Amazon rainforest:
http://www.mongabay.com/saving_brazils_forests.html
Read an interview with Dr. Daniel Nepstad, head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program in Belém, Brazil:
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-nepstad_interview.html
Find out 7 things you can do to help the Amazon and other rainforests:
http://www.adventure-life.com/articles/save-rainforest-73.php
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