World IN BRIEF : BRAZIL : Amazon Destruction Declines
<i> From Times staff and wire service reports </i>
Increased government control and inspection has significantly deccreased the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, Brazil’s top environmental official said. Fernando Cesar Mesquita, the president of the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, said his agency estimates “the devastation will be 30% less” than last year, when illegal land clearing wrecked 55,350 square miles of forest.
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