Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Saving The Green Hell - Alberto Yanosky

The Amazon rainforest is South America's best known jungle habitat, but National Geographic/Buffett Award winner Alberto Yanosky tells of a dry forest that spans across the borders of Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, which is South America's second largest. The chaco forest, also known as "The Green Hell," is shrinking at the rate of 2,000 soccer fields each day, in the name of clearing pasture for cattle.

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