How Brazil is halting deforestation in the Amazon

Brazil soon expects to overtake the US as the world's biggest soy producing nation. In the Amazon, soy farmers have rapidly expanded their land by using fire, bulldozers, saw mills and logging teams to clear the rainforest. But amid mounting concerns about global warming and biodiversity loss, Brazil's government is deploying more personnel and equipment to hold the line between the food and the forest.
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