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Brazil 's environment is considered majority of Biodiversity on the planet Earth , approximately two thirds of all Species , are found in Tropical areas, which is often where Developing Contries are. OVERVIEW .]] BIODIVERSITY Brazil's immense area is subdivided into different Ecosystem s in several kinds of Biome s such as Amazon Rainforest ; Atlantic Forest , which included Atlantic Coast Restingas ; Caatinga ; Cerrado ; and Pantanal . Being a species-rich ecosystem for Fauna and Flora , it houses many thousands of species, with many (if not most) of them still undiscovered. Due to the relatively explosive economic and demographic rise of the country in the last century, Brazil's ability to protect its Environmental Habitats has increasingly come under threat. Extensive Logging in the nation's forests, particularly the Amazon, both official and unofficial, destroys areas the size of a small country each year, and potentially a diverse variety of plants and animals. USDA Forest Service website, Forest Service International Programs: Brazil , retrieved February 2007. As several of these specimens possess special characteristics, or are built in an interesting way, some of their capabilities may be copied for use in technology (see Bionics ). The revenues derived from such plans may still hold the key to preserve the country's animal and plant species. DEFORESTATION ]] In 2005, Dorothy Stang , a 73 year old American Nun , was murdered in a dispute with a local rancher. Stang wanted to preserve a swath of the rainforest, where the rancher wanted to raise cattle.Wallace, Scott. ''National Geographic Magazine''. January 2007. In addition, the Brazilian Environmental Activists Chico Mendes and Wilson Pinheiro were also murdered in disputes with a local ranchers in 1988 and 1980, respectively. It was not the same ranchers, though. SEE ALSO
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