greenskeptic.blogspot.com - 7/22/2009
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Veteran conservationist David Cleary knows what's critical for protecting the Amazon: beef. Cleary, the director of conservation strategies in South America for The Nature Conservancy, lived in the Amazon for over a decade and he knows that "the most important driver of deforestation in the ...
blog.nature.org - 7/20/2009
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Comment from Annette Time July 20, 2009 at
1:58 pm At home we enjoy a low-animal protein...
diet, for our health and the environment’s sake. We eat animal food, but very sparsely. When I buy meat or poultry, I stick to locally and organically produced ...
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Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature ...
greenmonk.net - 7/22/2009
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Cattle are responsible for about 80% of all
deforestation’ in the Amazon region. In recent years, on...
average one hectare of Amazon rainforest has been lost to cattle ranchers every 18 seconds. Analysis by Greenpeace of 2006–2007 satellite data and ...
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Greenpeace score big wins against illegal deforestation ...
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com - 7/17/2009
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Where's the Beef: Will Banning Amazon Beef Doom the Rainfrorest?
The Energy Collective —
Veteran conservationist David Cleary knows what's critical for protecting the Amazon: beef. Cleary, the director of conservation strategies in South America for The Nature Conservancy, lived in the Amazon for over a decade and he knows that "the most important driver of deforestation in the Amazon is ranching, with pasture having replaced more than 80 percent of the Brazilian Amazon cleared since reliable satellite records began, in the early 1980s." As Cleary writes in his Cool Green Science blog post this week, "There are good reasons why ranching thrives in the Amazon: land is free or cheap in most of it, cattle need minimal care, ...
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Greenpeace score big wins against illegal deforestation in Brazil
theenergycollective.com 7/7/2009 —
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GreenPeace released a damning report last month called Slaughtering the Amazon in which it detailed how the Brazilian cattle sector is the largest driver of deforestation in the world.
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