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The rate of destruction of the rainforest in the Amazon River region increased by 40 percent, and last year an area equal to the area of the State of Israel was eliminated.
"It's shocking," said Mario Monzi, the center of an ecological organization in Brazil, "the pace of clearing the forest should have decreased, but exactly the opposite is happening in the field." Recent data from the Amazon region show that in 2002 jungle was eliminated in a total area of about 25,500 square kilometers, compared to about 18,100 square kilometers in 2001.
The Amazon basin, which is the size of Western Europe, has an important influence on the Earth's climate. The area is known as the "oxygen-producing lungs of the earth", and is the breeding ground for about 30 percent of all known animals and plants on the planet.
The destruction of forests is mainly due to the process of "flowering the wilderness" in the style of Brazil: clearing areas to prepare them for agricultural crops, mainly soy, which yields large profits for farmers. Brazil's Ministry of the Environment announced that new regulations will be published next week that will reduce the process.
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