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Amazon deforestation slows: Brazil (AFP)
Nov 4, 2009

A view of a deforested area on the border of Xingu river in the Amazon rainforest, northern Brazil in 2005. Brazil lost 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) of Amazon jungle in September, but deforestation slowed by a third compared with the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)AFP - Brazil lost 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) of Amazon jungle in September, but deforestation slowed by a third compared with the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday.


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