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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Thu Apr 13, 2017, 09:59 PM Apr 2017

Birds of Brazil's Pantanal

Birds of Brazil's Pantanal

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https://www.forbes.com/pictures/eglg45iedil/brazils-finest-feathere/#5de88162e3f6

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Birds of Brazil's Pantanal (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2017 OP

A regrettable thing about the Pantanal is that huge stretches of it are being destroyed... NNadir Apr 2017 #1

NNadir

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1. A regrettable thing about the Pantanal is that huge stretches of it are being destroyed...

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Thu Apr 13, 2017, 11:37 PM

Apr 2017

...to make ethanol farms and hydroelectric facilities.

I wrote about the former sometime ago elsewhere, including a sad riff on the self immolation (in protest) of the environmental activist Francisco Anselmo de Barros: Those Happy Sugarcane Workers In Brazil: The Car Culture and Urinary Carcinogens.

I'm not sure that there will be a Pantanal all that far into the future, which is a shame, because it is - or maybe was - the world's largest wetland.

It's beautiful, and thank you for the reference, but it's too sad to contemplate.

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