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Brazil has made great strides in recent years in slowing Amazon deforestation and showing the world it was serious about protecting the mammoth rain forest. The rate of deforestation fell by 80 percent over the past six years, as the government carved out about 150 million acres for conservation. But since Dilma Rousseff was elected president in late 2010, there have been signs of a shift in the government's attitude toward the Amazon. [Source: New York Times]
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