Planet Ark

Norway will donate US$1 billion to Brazil’s Amazon protection fund through 2015, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday, to help Brazil fight deforestation.

“Sweden and Brazil signed a deal on Tuesday to promote bioenergy and foster a world market for biofuels, the Swedish government said. The two countries will also work to increase cooperation between researchers and companies to improve techniques for sustainable production.”

“Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on Africa to join the “biofuel revolution”, saying it would help strengthen the world’s poorest economies and fight global warming.”

Ranchers and farmers are being driven into the Amazon rainforest in hopes of finding “cheap land,” says environmentalists. Unfortunately, the Brazilian government is not doing anything to control and stop destruction.