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The efforts to save the Amazon rainforest actually did save it. However, new threats have arisen to combat conservation efforts.

How Brazil Has Dramatically Reduced Tropical Deforestation

https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/article/how-brazil-has-dramatically-reduced-tropical-deforestation/

“Over the past nine years, the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped by 70 percent. This success has been achieved despite high beef and soy prices, which in previous years had pushed deforestation upward, and during a time that Brazil had rapid economic growth and made important progress in reducing poverty, hunger, and inequality. Brazil’s reduction in emissions from deforestation is the largest contribution so far by any country—rich or poor—to reducing global warming pollution.”

Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects

https://www.livescience.com/27692-deforestation.html

“Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).”

Tropical Deforestation Affects Rainfall in the U.S. and Around the Globe

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/deforest_rainfall.html

“Today, scientists estimate that between one-third and one-half of our planet's land surfaces have been transformed by human development. Now, a new study is offering insight into the long-term impacts of these changes, particularly the effects of large-scale deforestation in tropical regions on the global climate.”

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Region: South America

Region: Brazil, Amazon Forest