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The Brazilian government is responsible for destroying the rainforest.
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THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DESTROYING THE RAINFOREST There are many ways in which the rainforest is being destroyed. Here are just some of them. The biggest influence on the rainforest is the cutting down of trees. The government regulates the cutting of the trees and it gives out licences. But using the rainforest like this has devastating effects. Because the lumberjacks start on the outside of the rainforests and work their way in. There is a very big demand for the hard woods such as mahogany, this demand comes from England. However mahogany trees are very rare and grow very slowly. So roads have to be cut through the forest to provide transport, so they can reach the hard woods that they need. Only 1-2 mahogany trees can be found in one hectare so they have to create quite a lot of roads to find them. They are also...
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