RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 5:Brazil's Para state has created the world's biggest forest preserve, the size of Bangladesh, north of the Amazon River, one third of which will be entirely off limits to development.
Two thirds of the 150,000-square-kilometer (58,000 square miles) preserve, subdivided into seven areas, will be open to logging and other industries, albeit under strict regulations and government control, said a decree signed Monday by Para Governor Simao Jatene.—AFP
