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BRASILIA, Feb. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- One of the world's most ambitious conservation efforts has taken a major step forward with the declaration of two new major protected areas, comprising 9.4 million acres of rain forest, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
Part of the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) initiative sponsored by Brazil, the World Bank and World Wildlife Fund, the new protected area includes the 8.3 million acre Terra do Meio Ecological Station and the 1.1 million acre Serra do Pardo National Park in the eastern sector of the central Amazon. Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva signed the decree creating the new parks late Thursday.See the full content of this document
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Wwf Hails 'Giant Step' Forward in Amazon Conservation
"Conservation in the Amazon takes a giant step forward with this decree," said Carter Roberts, WWF's Chief Conservation Officer. "With these two critical pieces ...
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