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In the first seven years of this century, around 19 million hectares of rainforest in the Legal Amazon region of Brazil were cut down. But the jury’s out on the chief culprit behind this deforestation – some say it’s the growth in cattle ranches while others believe it’s increased cultivation of crops such as soy.
