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 Stories About: Brazil AND deforestation AND national parks AND rainforests
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Tumucumaque and Stomachache
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23 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Tumucumaque and Stomachache There's good news and bad news from the Amazon. Good news first: The Brazilian government has announced the creation of the world's largest tropical forest reserve -- the 9,562,770-acre Tumucumaque National Park, in the northern Amazonian state of Amapa. The bad news is that even such a large park seems like a Band-Aid effort for Brazil's rainforest, which is disappearing at t ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, deforestation, national parks, rainforests (all these topics) |
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