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__** Deforestation **__ = Primary Sources:  = [|Visible Earth - Deforestation in Brazil] In this website it shows a picture that NASA took of Brazil. The areas that are dark green is where the forest has not been touched. The light green and brown areas show where the forest has been taken down and, the red dots represent fires that have occurred. I chose this website because the picture really shows how bad deforestation is in Brazil. Most of the picture is shown as light green or brown. [|Interview with Mauro Pires] This was an interview with Mauro Pires, the director of Policies to Combat Deforestation of the Ministry of the Environment. In the interview, Mauro talked about the PPCDAM. This is a plan to distribute the land in the Amazon so that there is more security watching over the land. The government is working with many different organizations to limit deforestation. = Artifacts:  = [|Malaria Increases with Deforestation in Brazil] This article states the effects that deforestation has. Malaria has been increasing as more trees have been cut down. They say that you are more likely to get bit my a mosquito in the open then when there are many trees surrounding you. [|Amazon deforestation speeds up] Brazil is now trying to stop deforestation of about 70 percent because of how fast the forest is being cut down. Ranchers and farmers are regularly cutting down the forest for their "business". Satellite images show that deforestation in the Amazon has become as big as half of Los Angela's, California. [|"Zero" Amazon Deforestation Possible by 2015] Nine Brazillian non-governmental organizations are setting up a proposal that would diminidh deforesteration in the Amazon completely before the year 2015. This proposal is suggesting that 1 Billion Real per year will be provided for maintaing existing forests and the servives that they provide. Another recommendation is to strengthen forest monitoring and control to protect the forest even more. This proposal will be worked out through Brazillian government officials, forestry producers and buisnesses, enviornmental organizations, and indigenous people in the Amazon area. = =