Brazil to increase efforts to preserve cerrado


	Brazil to increase efforts to preserve cerrado

BirdBarista

9-11-2009 7:27 PM

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Read my post on coffee growing in the cerrado here: http://tinyurl.com/5kqjuc

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</TD><TD width="24"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Brazil will try to reduce deforestation of the cerrado, a wooded grassland ecosystem in Brazil that is being destroyed twice as fast as the Amazon rainforest, according to the country's Environment Minister Carlos Minc.
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