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Greenpeace score big wins against illegal deforestation in Brazil

by Tom Raftery on July 7, 2009 · 4 comments

in deforestation

Photo credit leoffreitas
GreenPeace released a damning report last month called Slaughtering the Amazon in which it detailed how the Brazilian cattle sector is the largest driver of deforestation in the world.
In this shocking exposé Greenpeace detailed how:

Cattle are responsible for about 80% of all deforestation’ in the Amazon region. In recent years, on average [...]

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April 27th GreenMonk Energy & Sustainability show

by Tom Raftery on April 27, 2009 · 0 comments

in GreenMonkTV, video

I embedded today’s show live on GreenMonk.net on a new page on the site. Moving people to this page will allow me to change the back-end without inconveniencing people, however, it doesn’t appear to be possible for people to login to the chat on this page with their Ustream accounts so instead viewers were labelled [...]

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