Investigate how segments of Brazil's Amazon Rainforest are cleared for lumber, agriculture, and grazing
Damage to the Amazon rainforest caused by burning and cutting.
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NARRATOR: More and more rainforest is cleared as a way of solving growing problems. And the needs of tomorrow lose to the needs of today, whether for more housing, or roads, or lumber, or farmland, or pasture.
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So many fires burn at once that the smoke can be seen by satellites in space.
Several years after a burn, the soil is suitable only for grass and cattle grazing. The rainforest does not return.
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So many fires burn at once that the smoke can be seen by satellites in space.
Several years after a burn, the soil is suitable only for grass and cattle grazing. The rainforest does not return.
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