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46<br />

By 2050, current trends in agricultural<br />

expansion will eliminate a total of 40% of<br />

Amazon forests, including at least two thirds<br />

of the forest cover of six major watersheds<br />

and 12 ecoregions, releasing carbon into the<br />

atmosphere… equivalent to four years of<br />

current annual emissions world wide.<br />

Nature, March 2006 277

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