[Scpg] amazon

[seedmind at usa.net]

oopsie!
just when you think it's safe to breathe. 
Where the heck was Sting?
Akiva
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Amazon Destruction Jumps 

(Reuters) - The deforestation rate in Brazil's Amazon, the world's largest
jungle, has jumped 40 percent, sparking alarm on Thursday among
environmentalists and a promise by the government to launch emergency
measures. "This is shocking," said Mario Monzoni, a project coordinator for
Friends of the Earth group in Brazil. "The rate of deforestation should be
falling, instead the opposite is happening." Preliminary figures from the
Environment Ministry, released late on Wednesday, showed deforestation in the
Amazon jumped to 9,840 square miles last year -- the highest since 1995 --
from 7,010 square miles in 2001. More... 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030626/wl_nm/environment_brazil_amazon_dc_5