DATE: Monday, November 10, 1997 TAG: 9711100021
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Focus
SOURCE: BY KATHERINE ELLISON and GEORGIA TASKER, KNIGHT-RIDDER
NEWSPAPERS
DATELINE: BRASILIA LENGTH: 27 lines
FOCUS: ENDANGERED RAIN FOREST
Brazil's Amazon rain forest is under seige from tree-clearing fires, industrial development and dwindling government funds. Now environmentalists are asking the international community to make preservation a higher priority. For complete copy of this wire story, see microfilm [A second wire story appears on this page Headline: WHY the Amazon rain forest matters, complete with map showing deforestation...] ILLUSTRATION: AP Photo
This photo shows what had been part of the southeast corner of the
Amazon rain forest... KEYWORDS: RAIN FOREST DEFORESTATION
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