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Keywords
Aerial view
Clearcutting
Deforestation
Destruction
Farmers
Forest fires
Forests (campaign title)
Greenpeace campaigners
Illegal logging
KWCI (GPI)
Plantations
Rainforests
Ranches
Rivers
Roads
Soya beans
Timber
Timber industry
Trucks
Amazon BR-163 Highway - English Version
The trans-Amazon highway BR-163 provides a lifeline for the states of Mato Grosso and Para. Soya, timber, meat and rice are transported to the Amazon port of Santarem via this road. About half the seventeen hundred kilometer road is still dirt track which is impassable during the rainy season, leading the Brazilian government to announce plans to tarmac the whole length of the highway. This could spell disaster for the Amazon rainforest as economic progress and wide scale environmental destruction will go hand-in-hand if the BR-163 is developed. The new road will open up huge areas ripe for turning ancient rainforest into giant soya plantations. Opponents of the plan say the Federal Government must insist on stringent safeguards and point to other highway developments, which have caused disastrous social and environmental consequences.
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Documentation of BR-163 Highway in the Amazon
Greenpeace activists block a 135 km illegal road, in the National Forest (Flona) of Altamira, a protected area at the margins of the BR-163 highway in the state of Pará created by the Brazilian Government in 1988. The road cuts directly through the National Forest and is used for illegal logging operations and deforestation inside the protected area.
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Documentation of BR-163 Highway in the Amazon (Photo + Video)
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Unique identifier:
GP04QOE
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
01/08/2005
Locations:
Amazon
,
Brazil
,
Mato Grosso
,
Pará
,
South America
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
3m44s
Audio format:
Final Mix
File size
559.83 MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)