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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Internal Brazil fight may hamper Amazon protection (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 01:37 PM CST

An Indian man is seen during the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Despite a global financial crisis that is lessening demand for lumber, invasions of Indian reserves in the Amazon continues rapidly, Indians from across the Amazon region said Friday at the forum.  The World Social Forum is an annual counter cultural gathering to protest the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - A global counterculture gathering dedicated partly to preserving the world's rain forests has become a bureaucratic battleground for two Brazilian officials squabbling over what to do with the vast Amazon region.


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