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Amazon Deforestation BBC News
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Video Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlnoxgqEWo
Brazilian officials have told the BBC that there's been an aggressive increase in deforestation since the election of President Bolsonaro in January. • An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every minute. • The rainforest - which plays a vital role in regulating the Earth's climate - covers an area 20 times the size of Britain. Nearly two thirds of it is in Brazil. • Crucially, it absorbs billions of tons of carbon dioxide every year and produces 20% of the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. • David Shukman has been to see how decades of conservation efforts are being reversed. • • • Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
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