Our precious Amazon rainforest really needs looking after – this is very common knowledge. Even though we seem to realise this, lots of changes are still being made in the Amazon and apart from the loss of the valuable trees, it has recently been discovered that building new roads not only promotes deforestation but also spreads malaria!!! (25/02/2008)
“New roads promote deforestation. A recently published survey of the Peruvian Amazon by Paulo Oliveira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and several colleagues shows that 75 percent of the forest disruption that occurred between 1999 and 2005 occurred within 12 miles of a road. And deforestation promotes malaria — researchers Amy Vittor and Jonathan Patz surveyed a newly constructed road and reported in 2006 that the areas along the road that had suffered more deforestation also suffered more malaria. “ (25/02/2008)
yup!
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19276850&\1ft=1&\1f=1007
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