Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Mongabay
Jan 7, 2022, 12:08 pm276 pts
With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. Bordered by Peru on the west, it represents just 1.7% of Brazil’s huge land mass but is of great ecological importance as it’s mostly covered in both dense and open Amazon rainforest, home to giant…

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