The company also underscored that 60% of the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon is due to cattle ranching expansion.
This could lead to food shortages and higher food prices, as well as encouraging deforestation of areas to make way for biofuel crops.
Others have compared it to the deforestation of tropical rainforests.
While sustainable forestry techniques -- such as selectively culling trees rather than clear-cutting whole areas of forests -- could reduce deforestation of rainforests by millions of acres per year, according to National Geographic, travellers can also play their part.
"Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, adaptation, and the reduction of deforestation, the ability of developing countries to pursue sustainable development is likely to diminish, to the economic and environmental detriment of all, " the scientists said.
Last October, Brazil said the rate of deforestation plunged 41 percent because of the enforcement of environmental laws.
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The most serious example is Haiti, which is particularly vulnerable to extreme events because of deforestation, difficult topography, poverty and a lack of public infrastructure.
Following decades of illegal deforestation and poaching, the number of gorillas at Bwindi has steadied at around 340, and for the first time in years, it is very slowly on the rise.
The NGO made fresh allegations: that SMART, a palm-oil producer, a member of the RSPO and a part of Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate, was involved in illegal deforestation and clearance of peatland.
And that's at the same time that we're going to be hitting them with a lot of other challenges besides climate change - pollution and land use change, deforestation and fragmenting of the landscape.
Strengthening these farms is also important for the environment, as smallholders represent stewards of natural resources that are in need of sustainable management to prevent deforestation and the degradation of ecosystems.
But while the presence of humans has been a major factor in increasing deforestation and the clearing of land for farming, the absence of humans can also be a threat to trees.
You have been working very hard to minimize, to mitigate the consequences of deforestation.
This will provide competition to the underlying causes of deforestation and reward those who implement sustainable forestry management.
Demand for luxury hardwood is by no means the main cause of deforestation.
On rates of deforestation, there was little to choose among the groups.
"Regrettably we have noticed that in states that didn't have an aggressive level of deforestation there has been a rise, " Ms Teixeira said.
According to the pressure group Greenpeace, expansion of the cattle industry in the Amazon is the single biggest cause of deforestation in the region.
Cooking on traditional biomass stoves and open fires causes 1.9 million premature deaths annually, especially in children, and is a major cause of deforestation.
Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
The scientists found that thanks to current levels of deforestation in the region, rainfall is 6-7 percent lower than it would be with full forest cover.
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Its management of the Amazon rainforest is crucial to the health of the planet, which is why the recent large reduction in the rate of deforestation has been so encouraging.
On the Kyoto agreement, McCormick says the treaty puts too much emphasis on energy emissions from smokestacks and autos, while missing the role of deforestation in carbon emissions.
And while the FAO admits that some developing countries will be able to expand their arable land by as much as 12 percent, the downside is that a "considerable part" of this extra farmland will be a direct result of deforestation.
The Amazon forest provides a relevant example: due to the interaction of deforestation, fire and climate change, it is predicted that the Amazon could undergo a widespread dieback in the future, with parts of the forest moving into a self-perpetuating cycle of more frequent fires and intense droughts, leading to a shift to savanna-like vegetation.
Key causes of Amazon deforestation are illegal trafficking in timber and minerals, fires and the spread of agriculture and stockbreeding.
In 1992 Mr Gore asserted that 20% of the Amazon had been deforested and that deforestation continued at the rate of 80m hectares a year.
With deforestation being the country's largest source of emissions, reversing deforestation is also the only feasible way for it to meet that target.
Moreover, as ever-better ways of measuring local carbon-dioxide levels become available, it will be possible to put figures on not just the amount of the gas that deforestation is releasing, but also how much of it photosynthesis is tucking away.
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Human activity, however, especially in the form of agriculture, deforestation, hunting and pollution, has inexorably reduced the numbers of these species, leaving many of them teetering on the brink of extinction.
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