- Volume 2 (2008), Issue 3
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Railroads in the Amazon: A Key Strategy for Reducing Deforestation
iverse Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest forest, spanning nine South American countries. The Amazon biome includes an area of more than 7 million km2, of which 69% (4.871.000 km2) is located in Brazil. The Legal Brazilian Amazon,1 which includes a larger area than the biome, as it includes a portion of the savannah biome, covers roughly half of the Brazilian territory. To date, 744.000 km2, or 18.6% of its original forested area, have been destroyed,2 of which 80% is located in the southern and eastern portions of the basin. This ar