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Posted by jamie — 5 September 2008 at 6:10pm
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If you haven't had your fill of news from the
Amazon lately (we've recently had live
webcasts and slideshows
from regions where fires have swept through), Monday's edition of Panorama is
dedicated to the largest rainforest on Earth, and Greenpeace will featured.
Called Can Money Grow On Trees?, it will
examine how the rising cost of food is threatening the Amazon as more forest is
converted into farmland for cattle ranching - the current dry season provides an excellent
opportunity for a bit of fire-based forest clearance. Also included will be the
question of whether financial mechanisms (like our own proposal) can be brought
in to make forests more valuable if they're left standing.
We haven't seen the final programme, but it's
on BBC1 at 8.30pm, with a repeat on Friday 12 September at 12.45am. Of course,
you can watch
it at anytime on the wondrous iPlayer after transmission (although only if you're in the UK).
Posted by jamie — 3 September 2008 at 2:19pm
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It's currently the dry season in the Amazon and, as the live webcast last week demonstrated, fires have been decimating large areas. The video crew weren't the only ones documenting the fires and last week we received images from another Greenpeace team who took to the air to photograph them and the devastated areas they leave behind. We've put together some of the most striking (not to say depressing) images into the slideshow below.
Posted by jamie — 1 September 2008 at 4:58pm
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On Friday, a Greenpeace team
broadcast a live webcast from the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in an area
which was still-smouldering after a recent forest fire. Even rainforests have dry seasons and during the current one, fires both natural and man-made are devastating huge areas.
It was an amazing
technical achievement but that wasn't the reason they did it - they were there to show how the forest is being cleared for a variety of reasons (in this case, to open
up areas for cattle).
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