Pledge to reduce Amazon’s clearing
Times Wire Reports
Brazil pledged to cut the rate at which the Amazon forest is being destroyed in half over the next decade to help combat global warming.
Setting its first such target after years of global criticism, Brazil will aim to reduce clearing of the world’s largest rain forest to an annual 2,259 square miles by 2018.
Brazil wants to become a voice in global environmental issues and hopes the plan will allay criticism it has done little to fight burning and clearing by loggers, farmers and ranchers.
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