date:May 14, 2012
ntations are helping drive deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
Brazilian farmers who raise cattle at a very low density on the cerrado are being offered a lot of money by soy farmers who want that land,explains Duncan Williamson, senior policy advisor (food) at WWF UK.The cattle farmers then move further north into the Amazon rainforest, so there are two ecosystems being destroyed at the same time.
Environmental groups warn that the destruction of these areas is having a huge impact o