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Rio bringing green to a concrete jungle
Providencia, Rio de Janeiro's first favela, is one of dozens of places where people are starting projects to create a greener version of a tree-starved urban landscape that contrasts with the verdant rain forest looming over the city.
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Sustainable farming effort launched in bid to halt deforestation
1. Pan of crops in field
2. Mid of tree crop
3. Various of crops
4. Mid of truck carrying staf from Brazil''s agricultural research agency, Embrapa, driving through field
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Flavio Wruck, Embrapa...
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Various - Increased threat to rain forests
The World Bank, in a pessimistic report, says that nearly half of the Earth's remaining five billion acres of tropical forests could be lost to agriculture, mostly to poor farmers. The new report by the Consultative Group on...
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Madagascar - Efforts to save rainforest
Intensive efforts are being made to save the unique but rapidly shrinking rain forest of the island of Madagascar, home to some of
the greatest bio-diversity in the world. Only 15 per cent of the forest is now left, after a 35-year...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Fact Tracker: Rain Forests
This video checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #5: Afternoon on the Amazon by Mary Pope Osborne. Fact Tracker: Rain Forests, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is...