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World: Brazilian Farmers Offered Cash to Fight Deforestation

nobody@flickr.com (TheNewYorkTimes) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:39:02 -0700

In much of the developing world, including Mato Grosso, deforestation has been tied to economic progress. And until now, there has been no financial reward for keeping forest standing. Which is why a growing number of scientists, politicians and environmentalists argue that cash payments to landowners are the only way to end tropical forest destruction and provide a game-changing strategy in efforts to limit global warming. At left, a visitor aboard a boat along the Rio das Mortes, or River of the Dead, in Mato Grosso.

Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times

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World: Brazilian Farmers Offered Cash to Fight Deforestation

nobody@flickr.com (TheNewYorkTimes) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:39:03 -0700

TheNewYorkTimes posted a photo:

Vaqueros, or cowboys, on a ranch in Mato Grosso. Until very recently, developing the Amazon was the priority, and some settlers feel betrayed by the new stigma surrounding deforestation. Much as in the 19th-century American West, the Brazilian government encouraged settlement through homesteaders' benefits like cheap land and housing subsidies, many of which still exist today.

Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times

Full Slide Show: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/22/world/0822-DEGREES_i...

World: Brazilian Farmers Offered Cash to Fight Deforestation

nobody@flickr.com (TheNewYorkTimes) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:39:02 -0700

TheNewYorkTimes posted a photo:

A piece of heavy farm equipment worked in a sea of red dirt, where native forest once stood, as the field was prepared for soy bean cultivation in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Mato Grosso means thick forests, and the name was once apt. But today, this Brazilian state is a global epicenter of deforestation.

Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times

Full Slide Show: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/22/world/0822-DEGREES_i...