Wetlands
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- Brazil proposes banning sugarcane in Amazon, 18 September 2009 by the COP 15 Copenhagen Website: "Brazil's president is proposing a plan to prohibit sugarcane-ethanol plantations in the Amazon and other ecologically sensitive areas."
- Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops, 25 July 2008 press release by United Nations University and the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (Brazil): "Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of precious wetlands worldwide as farmers and developers look for new areas for agriculture, energy crop plantations and hydro dams."
- Exceprt from the Cuiabá Declaration on Wetlands, issued 25 July 2008:
- "Rising energy prices are leading to the large-scale cultivation of plants for bio-fuels. In addition to the problems of rising food prices, the increasing demand for bio-fuels will stimulate an expansion of energy-crop plantations at the cost of areas covered by natural vegetation. We call attention to the danger of direct negative impacts on wetlands by land reclamation and drainage, and to the indirect impacts caused increased inputs of sediments, fertilizers, and pesticides from surrounding croplands."[2]
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