Leandro Ramos of The Nature Conservancy
visits Fernando Pallaro in his soybean field.
Pallaro is one of hundreds of farmers participating in the Sustainable Soy project
and helping halt Amazon deforestation.
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Soy farmer Fernando Pallaro meets the legal requirement of having at least half his land in
forest, and he is registered with the Nature Conservancy soy program and supplies
Cargill. He grows soybeans on land cleared
decades ago for cattle ranching.
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Benito Guerrero of The Nature Conservancy speaks to a conservation officer in a canopy
of Tapajόs National Park, primary rainforest
that towers above the patches of secondary forest that soy farmers are preserving.
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A conservation officer inspects the primary rainforest of Tapajόs National Park, a 600,000 hectare (1.5 million acre) preserve near Santarem. Satellite mapping pioneered by The Nature Conservancy and Cargill provide a way to link existing secondary forests and create new preserves for biodiversity.
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