Word: santarém
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...planning and transportation have ignored or forgotten the trauma of 1998 and, without consulting the federal Ministry of Environment, have approved paving the last dirt stretch of BR-163, which runs 1,741 km north and east from Campo Grande in Mato Grosso do Sul to the city of Santar?m in Par?. The 700-km unpaved section runs directly past Tapaj?s National Forest and on through millions of hectares of the most vulnerable parts of the rain forest. Says Nepstad: ?Brazilian scientists call this area the ?corridor of drought,? and it becomes kindling when El Ni?o roars through...
...largely the product of vigorous lobbying by giant agribusinesses, which see the route as a more profitable way to export soybeans. (After the U.S., Brazil is the world?s largest exporter of the crop.) A Brazilian-American consortium is planning to build an enormous dock-and-loading system in Santar?m, the sleepy port that lies at the junction of the Tapaj?s and Amazon rivers, 700 km from the Atlantic Ocean. Exporting through Santar?m might save agribusinesses $1 per 30-kg bag of soybeans...
...hectare property. He has had to take extraordinary steps, including creation of firebreaks and programs to pick up flammable forest litter, to prevent fire from destroying the timber operation he has built up over 22 years. Cemex?s wood-processing plant has the largest payroll in Santar?m, and the company?s timber property south of town is a model of forest management, which baranek hopes to get officially certified as eco-friendly in the near future...
...landless on land that is not virgin forest. ?incra dumps people in the forest and thinks they are finished with their responsibilities,? he says. Yet baranek still sees the road as inevitable, and a good thing. ?You can?t stop progress,? he says and shrugs, ?and it will connect Santar?m to the rest of Brazil...
...Highway has yet to be completely paved, and other roads in the Amazon have been all but abandoned. The road that once linked Porto Velho and Manaus becomes impassable a mere two hours outside Porto Velho. Ecologist Nepstad argues that a more limited network of paved roads could give Santar?m all-weather access to the rest of Brazil, while forestalling incursions of unauthorized settlers from the south. The soybean exporters have already paved access to Amazon waterways through Porto Velho...