They claim to have documented 11, 500 "colonists" who have deforested around 150, 000 hectares since 2009.
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Official policy, he says, is aimed at steering farmers to already deforested areas, while exercising closer control over logging.
He says his officials have visited areas officially identified as newly deforested to find that clearance happened long ago.
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The majority of deforested land in the Amazon is used for cattle ranching.
With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested.
Between 2000 and 2006 Indonesia planted roughly half a million hectares of oil palm a year, mostly on recently deforested land.
Giant herbivores that reached 80 tons had deforested more and more land and had to go far and wide for food.
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.
In parts of heavily deforested Para state, the average distance timber is carried to sawmills has risen from 17 kilometres to 70 over the past decade, encouraging loggers to move to other areas, says Roberto Smeraldi, of Friends of the Earth.
Many poor people who live in or near forests may actually welcome the opportunity to farm on deforested land and bureaucrats in distant capitals may think that unsustainable and low-revenue-yielding forest operations are politically preferable to what they perceive as expensive alternatives.
Radical suggestion for PETA: Want to save these animals from the pain of rubbing their noses raw at the foot of concrete dams, or from suffering and dying in the heat of deforested streams, or from being systematically over fished by commercial nets?
We assume the Moais were built for worship, and we think that their movement over seemingly impossible distances required a lot of wood, so much so that the entire island was eventually deforested and its eco-system ruined, no longer capable of supporting human life.
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