Thursday, January 26, 2006

Satellites Show Amazon Parks, Indigenous Reserves Stop Forest Clearing

"an international team of scientists, led by Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center and the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da AmazĂ´nia, used satellite data to demonstrate, for the first time, that rainforest parks and indigenous territories halt deforestation and forest fires."

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