Traveling from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the Tropical savannah climate of the Brazilian capital of Brasilia offers a lesson in contrasts -- patches of forest and deforestation are replaced with monolithic white government buildings, poor villagers of the Amazon with well-dressed politicians and businesspeople. But as little as these two places have in common, policies and practices enacted in Brasilia will be key in determining the fate of the Amazon. That said, I recently had the chance to sit down with the director ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
How Brazil Cut Deforestation Rates to Record Lows
Posted by GardenTonic 558 days ago (http://www.treehugger.com)Traveling from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the Tropical savannah climate of the Brazilian capital of Brasilia offers a lesson in contrasts -- patches of forest and deforestation are replaced with monolithic white government buildings, poor villagers of the Amazon with well-dressed politicians and businesspeople. But as little as these two places have in common, policies and practices enacted in Brasilia will be key in determining the fate of the Amazon. That said, I recently had the chance to sit down with the director ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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