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Brazilian Cut

Reason Staff | 10.7.2008 5:00 AM


When Brazil's Environment Ministry set out to document the 100 biggest illegal loggers, it found the biggest offender was the government itself. In fact, the six largest deforested areas of the Amazon belong to the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform, which distributes land to the poor.

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