Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by a whopping 29 percent this year — but there’s a way to slow it.

Grist
By Emma Foehringer MerchantDec 1, 2016, 6:19 pm235 pts
According to satellite imagery, loggers depleted 3,000 square miles of the Amazon from August 2015 to July 2016. That may be partially attributable to funding cuts that have hamstrung the government agency responsible for monitoring illegal logging. In 2004, Brazil created policies to decrease deforestation…

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