The rain forest destruction has sped up the first time in four years. The people who monitored the forest said that more than 4500 square miles of the rain forest was chopped down during August 2007 to July 2008. This size is more than half of Whales and four times more than the previous year. Experts said that it could have been worst without Brazil's illegal logging. Four years ago, Brazil destroyed 10500 square miles of rain forest each year, which is about about two times the current rate. The latest increase was because of farmers clearing the forest to farm. Now the Brazil government is going to introduce more more ways to deal with this problem. The Amazon Rain Forest is the biggest rain forest in the world and is nicknamed "The Earth's Lungs". The trees help us clean the air which we breath.
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