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Keywords
Aerial view
Agricultural land
Agriculture
Copy space
Day
Deforestation
Destruction
Fields
Forests (campaign title)
KWCI (GPI)
Meat and Dairy (campaign title)
Outdoors
Soya beans
Trees
Tropical rainforests
Deforested Area in the Amazon
Single tree in a soy field next to rainforest, south of Santarem and along the road BR163. Cutting through the Brazilian Amazon from north to south over a vast distance of 1700 km is a federal highway called the BR 163. For the past 20 years the highway has been one of the major drivers of deforestation in the region.
Unique identifier:
GP03TWS
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
11/02/2012
Locations:
Amazon
,
BR 163 Highway
,
Brazil
,
Pará
,
South America
Credit line:
© Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
Latitude:
2°42'22"S
Longitude:
54°54'27"W
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
The BR163 Amazon Federal Highway
Cutting through the Brazilian Amazon from north to south over a vast distance of 1700 km, for the past 20 years the BR 163 federal highway has been one of the major drivers of deforestation in the region. The highway has been paved at a cost of nearly one million Reais per kilometre. Yet many of the social and environmental initiatives have not been implemented. Of the 6.8 million hectares of protected areas created in 2006, many areas have now been reduced, boundaries redefined and only a few have management plans. Lack of governance is prevalent in the area surrounding the road with considerable deforestation, cattle ranchers and loggers invading protected areas. Brazil is currently one of the biggest global climate polluters through forest destruction and its leadership of forest protection is hanging by a thread. Greenpeace is calling on President Dilma to veto the new Forest Code and support the Brazilian people’s call for a Zero Deforestation law.
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