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Because of Mother's Day, Palm Sunday and a global demand for exotic xate palm leaves, the unspoiled rainforests of Belize, Mexico, Guatemala and other South America countries are being exploited due to the leaf's usage in long-lasting flower arrangements.
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As new satellite data shows deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest increased almost sixfold in the past year, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies passed a vote which would ease regulations on the Forest Code, allowing farmers to increase deforestation.
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Europe’s demand for cheap meat is dramatically changing the landscape of the Amazon.
Rainforest around Santarém has been replaced with fields over the last five years thanks to the advent of soya farming in the area.
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Water buffalo may not be the most pressing threat to the Amazon as a whole but on the river’s floodplain they are doing serious damage.
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Nestle's Kit Kat chocolate bars are best remembered by the advertising refrain, 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat.' But now an environmental group wants Nestle to take a break from supporting rainforest-killing companies.
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The signs in London’s Piccadilly Circus burst into life last night with the appearance of a new animated rainforest frog. Coca-Cola and McDonald’s simultaneously launched new graphics.
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Palm oil is present in five of products in the Prince's Duchy Originals range of organic groceries sold in British shops.
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Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has launched a global fund to protect the Amazon rain forest and combat climate change.
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Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rainforests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible - restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem.
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Canada announced Sunday it will spend $30 million canadian to protect one of the largest intact temperate rainforests left in the world.
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Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, say scientists.
Hundreds of indigenous Bolivians are on a second long march in protest at government plans to build a road through the Amazon rainforest.
Hundreds of Bolivian protesters arrive in La Paz to demand the government resume work on a controversial road through Amazon rainforest.
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Awá man from Juriti survey the forest which is being illegally destroyed by settlers, Awa, Brazil.
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