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Rio Los Amigos

snakes through a newly designated 340,000-acre conservation area, part of a chain of reserves that arguably contain the highest recorded biodiversity on Earth. Just across the border, rain forest becomes rangeland alone Brazil's Transamazonia Highway. Three quarters of the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has occurred within 30 miles of a paved highway.

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Peru's Long Haul: Highway to Riches, or Ruin?
snakes through a newly designated 340,000-acre conservation area, part of a chain of reserves that arguably contain the highest recorded biodiversity on Earth. Just across the border, rain forest becomes rangeland alone Brazil's Transamazonia Highway. Three quarters of the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has occurred within 30 miles of a paved highway.