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Some of the world's biggest commodities traders are still fuelling deforestation in Brazil and Bolivia. The land - in the Bolivian Amazon and Brazil's savannah - is largely being cleared to grow soy crops for animal feed to help meet the growing global demand for meat. Activists fear deforestation is accelerating in Brazil's savannah, which stretches from its border with Bolivia to the northeast, and say it needs the same protection as the country's famous rainforest. [Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation]
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