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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2002

The Amazon basin in Brazil is being destroyed at a rate of more than 6,000 square miles a year, mostly by large landowners who burn the forest to make way for farming and cattle grazing.

But tribes have been able to slow the deforestation. More than 385,000, or 12 percent of Brazil, has been placed under Indian control.

"If you put together satellite images of all the fires burning in the Amazon, you can see the outline of the indigenous areas just from that," an American scientist told The New York Times. "Where Indian land starts is where the fires stop."

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