Extensive deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
* Environmentalists are alarmed over plans in Brazil for extensive deforestation deforestation
Process of clearing forests. Rates of deforestation are particularly high in the tropics, where the poor quality of the soil has led to the practice of routine clear-cutting to make new soil available for agricultural use. of the Amazon rainforest The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. . Soya bean farmers are demanding that a 600-mile-long highway be paved pave
tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves
1. To cover with a pavement.
2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement.
3. To be or compose the pavement of. through this ecologically vital region to enable cheaper and more efficient exportation of the country's major food crop.
Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist.
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