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Part 2
Ten* years after the axe and the match moved in to devastate the Amazon rain forests, the Brazilian government has realised that it made a mistake.
The economic salvation of Brazil does not lie in clearing land for cattle, but in using a resource as valuable as oil, and which could with a little care last forever, the trees.
In the second of his reports from Brazil, Anthony Smith asks scientists, conservationists, and government officials:
What Should Be Happening to the Forestsf
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

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Anthony Smith
Producer:
Geoff Deehan
Source: Radio Times

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