EAP4B week 7.2AM The Amazon Rainforest

While destruction (0) of the Amazon rainforest is ongoing, the overall rate of deforestation (1) ___ the region is slowing, ...

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... is slowing, mostly due to the sharp drop (2) ___ forest clearing in Brazil since 2004.

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Brazil's declining deforestation rate has been attributed (3) ___ several factors,some of which it controls, some of which it doesn't.

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Since 2000 Brazil has established the world's largest network (4) ___ protected areas, ...

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...he majority of which are located (5) ___ the Amazon region

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Since 2004 the government has also had a deforestation reduction program in place. This includes improved law enforcement, satellite monitoring, and financial incentives (6) ___ respecting environmental laws.

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Furthermore, the private sector (especially the soy, logging, and cattle industries) are increasingly responsive (7) ___ consumer demand ....

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...consumer demand (8) ___ less-damaging commodities.

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inally the Brazilian Amazon has been the site of a number of innovative and ambitious conservation experiments, ranging (9) ___ jurisdictional commodity certification .....

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...ranging __x__jurisdictional commodity certification (10) ___ indigenous led Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects to Norway's billion dollar performance-based payment for cutting deforestation.

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