60% of deforested Amazon used for cattle: study

Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 03:31 in Earth & Climate

More than 60 percent of deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon forest are used for grazing cattle, while only five percent is used for agriculture, a new government study said.

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