You might be interested to know that apart from recruiting the best for the best, we at The Business Connection have a keen interest in nature conservation and natural history.  So we would like to draw your attention to some sobering facts regarding the Amazon rainforest and proposals to reduce it further:

The Amazon rainforest is responsible for the generation of 20% of the oxygen that we on this earth breathe, 30% of the world's freshwater is contained within the Amazon basin, 60% of the cancer fighting drugs used today are derived from plants that can only be found within the Amazon rainforest.

The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock.  All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large multinational companies.  The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself.  Its quality is very acidic and the region is prone to constant floods.

At this time more than 160,000 square kilometers have already been deforested for commercial purposes.  These areas have been abandoned and are in the process of becoming deserts.  Quite simply this deforestation proposal is in the short-term interests of a few, and in the long term interests of none.

The Brazilian congress is shortly voting on this whole project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size.

If any of our website visitors know of anyone that might be in a position to influence delegates to the Brazilian Congress, then please ask them to do all that they can to get this proposal stopped.