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Despite the mistakes???the list also includes some imported prefab houses that were devoured by Amazon bugs, and a supposedly super dredging machine that got hopelessly mired in Amazon mud?the progress at Jari is extraordinary. So far, about 185,000 acres, an area more than ten times the size of Manhattan Island, have been cleared and planted with Caribbean pine and Gmelina. Viewed from the air, the new forest looks as thick and lush as the sections of old native jungle left uncut along the riverbanks. A wild array of undergrowth, burnt away in the initial clearing, quickly grows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ludwig's Wild Amazon Kingdom | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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