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The latest threat to the Amazon: Steel trade’s hunger for charcoal sees thousand the motor industry
Daily Mail – The Amazon rainforest is facing threats from more than just logging for hard woods or for space for farming. These pictures show clandestine ovens used to make charcoal from wood cut illegally from the forests in Goianesia, in Brazil’s Para State.
The ovens are lined up along the PA150 highway, one of the main routes used to transport illegal charcoal to smelters producing pig iron in the nearby city of Maraba. Read article
Tags: deforestation / habitat loss, nature universe, nature of corporations, technology
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