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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)
BRAZIL: Environment versus development
At hearing news that the deforestation rate in the Amazon was continuing to increase, the Brazilian environment minister, Marina ad Silva, declared two years ago that "there is a conflict between the development and the environment" policy-makers in the government.
Regrettably for ecologists this conflict at the heart of the government tilts favour of development policies at the expense of the environment. For them the worst ever drought recorded in the Amazon is just another example of the region's ecosystem deterioration, and enough reason to campaign against the government's most ambitious development project yet: the diversion of part of the flow of the São Francisco River in the drought-ridden northeast of the country.
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