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Fires of the Amazon

The 1992 environment summit in Rio offered some hope that the Amazon forests in Brazil could survive development. Ten years on, reporter Adrian Cowell returns to the rainforest in this investigative film for the Correspondent strand, and discovers that the rate of deforestation has actually increased by a staggering 40 per cent.

English
  • Originally Aired September 1, 2002
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
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