Study Shows Brazil's Soy Moratorium Still Needed to Preserve Amazon

In a new study to evaluate the Brazilian Soy Moratorium, published today (Jan. 22, 2015) in Science, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Holly Gibbs and colleagues across the U.S. and Brazil show that the moratorium helped to drastically reduce the amount of deforestation linked to soy production in the region and was much better at curbing it than governmental policy alone.

Read the whole article on Newswise - Scinews

More from Newswise - Scinews