Campaign to save Amazon

Rio De Janeiro - International environment group Greenpeace launched its largest ever global campaign yesterday to combat illegal…

Rio De Janeiro - International environment group Greenpeace launched its largest ever global campaign yesterday to combat illegal logging by multinationals and slow the decline of Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

Logging companies represented the frontline of destruction of the Amazon forest, an area the size of Western Europe of which only two-thirds now remained, Greenpeace said.

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