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Summary:August 30 1971 the work of felling the huge Brazilian rain forest was gathering pace. Brazil's need was to open up its interior, where deposits of gold, copper, tin, manganese and other valuable minerals had already been found. But ecologists point out that the Amazon jungle and its billions of trees are a major source of oxygen and that to erase it will be to imperil life on Earth.
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Location:BRAZIL BRASIL AMAZON JUNGLE
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