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Acre’s deforestation of the Amazon has decreased by nearly 50 percent from 1998 levels, according to Jorge Viana, who was the state governor from...
...Viana said that with funding from the World Bank, the state was able to improve living standards and quality while it also maintained the area’s natural resources...
...state’s illiteracy rate has decreased from 25 percent to 14 percent, and unemployment dropped from 8 percent to 4 percent, according to Viana...
Additionally, Viana said that the government is working to better connect isolated forest communities through various methods, such as delivering medical supplies to the river communities on boats...
...Viana?s ideas deserve international attention because at least he recognizes the devil?s bargain in the extension of roads in the Amazon, and is trying to grapple with the problem of providing for people while protecting the forest. They also deserve attention because something vitally important to the entire world is now clearly threatened by forces that could destroy it wholesale. When I first visited this great green engine of life, scientists and environmentalists recognized the vast array of threats, but also assumed that the Amazon was too big to be destroyed by one generation?s folly. The vulnerability...