<html><img src="http://deoxy.org/img/amazoncrater.jpg" style="width:100%" border="0"></html> ++'''Between May 2000 and August 2006, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometers (58,000 square miles) of forest and since 1970, over 600,000 sq km (232,000 sq mi) of Media:Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.'''++--~~[http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html Deforestation in the Amazon]~~