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ARGENTINA: AGRIBUSINESS VS. FORESTS

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ARGENTINA: MASSIVE DEFORESTATION – MIGRATON OF CAMPESINOS Lands of the Department of San Martín, Prov. of Salta, supposedly protected by a court decision come up to deforestation audience. Some businessmen induced beef farming creol and Wichi communities to sign agreements, thus opening the land for deforestation audiences. Image: pobrezambiente.typad.com DEATH SENTENCE FOR THE NATIVE FORESTS IN ARGENTINA (from an article in EcoticiasArgentina, Ecoticias [newsletter@ecoticias.com]; Jan.26, 2014)   Ten thousand hectares of native forest where campesinos and Wichi native communities live and work are about to be razed to be destined to agribusiness. They are fields of the San Martín Department, Prov. of Salta, an area catalogued by the province as territory to be preserved. They had been protected by a decision of the Supreme Court of Justice in 2008. “The pressure from agribusiness is worth more than the Forestry Law and the human rights” denounced Red A...