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Combating deforestation in Bolivia

Bolivian farmers are taking new steps to reduce deforestation efforts to make way for cattle.
Last Modified: 31 Dec 2012 12:03

For more than a hundred years, families at a village in northern Bolivia have raised cattle.

But in order to to create areas for grazing, they destroyed nearby forests for the land.

Now they are taking part in a new project to try to reduce the impact on the environment.

Al Jazeera's Adam Raney reports.

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