{"id":226,"date":"2012-01-19T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-01-19T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:49:09","slug":"deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/19\/deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At www.mongabay.com\/brazil.html, we find an interesting website with basic but useful information about development in the Brazilian Amazon. The author details the main causes of deforestation by industry and includes a section about the role of roads in the process of deforestation. This website is particularly interesting because it goes over economic, historical, and even cultural reasons why Brazil has embraced a development approach towards the Amazon. The website belongs to Rhett Ayers Butler, a man who has completed research in Rainforests across the world. He does cite many academic journals for his data, which means he is a trustworthy source. The website has plenty of basic information on tropical forests across the world such as Borneo, Congo, New Guinea, etc.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/amazon_basin_map-336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-227\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/amazon_basin_map-336-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/amazon_basin_map-336-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/01\/amazon_basin_map-336.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At www.mongabay.com\/brazil.html, we find an interesting website with basic but useful information about development in the Brazilian Amazon. The author details the main causes of deforestation by industry and includes a section about the role of roads in the process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/01\/19\/deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}