Reply #24: South-Central Brazil is the Pantanal [View All]

[NickB79]

One of the sites specifically mentioned in the link joshcryer posted, ranking almost as ecologically valuable as the Amazon. It's like saying it's ok to drain the Everglades for farming, so long as you don't touch Yellowstone. Both are ecologically valuable and sensitive in their own right. Either you didn't read his link, or you don't know the geography of the very area you are attempting to argue about.

Also from his link:

"Some researchers have also argued that sugarcane expansion has displaced ranchers and small farmers to ecologically sensitive regions, including the Amazon, resulting in deforestation and forest degradation. "

Which also supports joshcryer's claim that sugarcane ultimately affects rainforest clearing.