Brazil farmers shown how to profit by conserving

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Brazil farmers shown how to profit by conserving

http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/41194

From: Luciana Lopez, Reuters
Published April 8, 2010 07:30 AM

This article relates to the topic of persevering ecosystems and the environment.

Are covered is Brazil

The state is Brazil's top soy producer, churning out an annual harvest of about 18 million tones. The crops have helped fuel Brazil's economic boom of recent years but they come at a price -- the clearing of more than 130,000 square km (50,000 square miles) of Amazon rain forest in the state from 1988 through 2008, to the widespread condemnation of environmental groups. So, with "save the world" emotional appeals not working, environmentalists are turning to economic arguments, stressing how preserving the world's largest forest can mean bigger profits for farmers. This plan is adding that about 132,000 hectares (326,000 acres) of preserves in several states have been or are being legalized.

I believe that this is great for Brazil because as they are developing they are destroying the rain forest at an unsustainable rate. This is exactly what Brazil needs to push them in the right direction.

hectares- is a unit of area, defined as being 10000 square metres