Plano Amazônia also contains measures to slow deforestation, but these will be hard to enforce.

The outlaw territory – this is how the region is called where more rain forest was destroyed than anywhere else on this planet.

The global crisis has revived this and other wildcat mines in Brazil where hundreds of thousands of desperate workers toil in precarious conditions, damaging health and environment

Gold is gaining new interest nowadays. For those who became soiled over and over by digging for it gold hardly offers any bright prospects.

By Andrew Downie (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
Fears have been growing over the future of the world’s biggest rain forest, in Brazil, where annual deforestation figures fell to a 16-year low in 2007 but is on the rise again

Perhaps Guyana’s president, Bharrat Jagdeo, will inspire bigger countries like Brazil to take a far more aggressive role in protecting their rain forests
By Robert B. Semple Jr. (The New York Times) MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/26/opinion/edsemple.php