"The six largest deforested areas since 2005 all belong to the government Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, or Incra, which distributes land to the poor. Together 223,000 hectares (550,000 acres) of the world's largest rain forest were destroyed on those six properties, as settlers chopped down trees to sell and plant crops."
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HT: Mark Eads from RESECON listserv.
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