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•The Amazon Rainforest is the world's greatest natural resource - the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. Yet still it is being destroyed just like other rainforests around the world.

•The problem and the solution to rainforest destruction are both economic.

•Rainforests are being destroyed worldwide for the profits they yield - mostly harvesting unsustainable

resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for subsistence cropping by rainforest inhabitants.

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