Klaus Hart Brasilientexte

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Dienstag, 22. November 2011 von Klaus Hart

Data from the federal government shows: 17.5% of Brazilian Amazonia is a deforested area. Of this total, 62% was turned into pasture for bulls and cows. Satellite images prove that by 2008 an area of 719,000 km2 – three times the state of Sao Paulo or a little less than the size of Chile – had had all the trees cut down. Rivers and lakes have been polluted, for sure.

Contrary to what we imagine, agriculture – particularly in the case of the production of grains like soya – occupies less than 5% of the total deforested area.