Deforestation in the Amazonian Forest of Brazil (IMAGE)

The New York Botanical Garden

Deforestation in the Amazonian Forest of Brazil

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Deforestation is damaging the Amazonian forest's ability to stabilize climate and sequester carbon. The New York Botanical Garden's new Amazon Forest Program will help improve forestry management practices as millions of acres of national forestland are opened to logging concessions for selective harvest.

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Douglas Daly, Ph.D.

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