00s 2006
Š Greenpeace / DANIEL BELTRĂ
An area twice the size of Belgium is given greater protection in the Amazon after a Presidential decree to create a 6.4 million hectare (around 16 million acres) conservation area. This is a great victory for the people of the Amazon who have been battling landgrabbers, cattle ranchers and loggers. The decree calls for around 1.6 million hectares to be permanently protected and totally off limits to logging and deforestation.
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