Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

Beef drives 80% of Amazon deforestation

mongabay.com, Rhett A. Butler, 29 January 2009

(…)Recent reports suggest that much of this expansion has been illegal. Laws for maintaining a "legal forest reserve" on Amazon land are widely flouted and many landowners acquire land without proper title. Corruption is rampant in frontier areas making law enforcement ineffective and sometimes complicit in illicit activities — including illegal logging and abuse of workers — that often accompany land clearing.(…)