BRAZIL: Soya traders extend moratorium on Amazon destruction
By: just-food.com | 29 July 2009
Greenpeace "congratulated" Brazilian soya traders who have agreed to extend for another year the moratorium on purchasing soybeans grown on illegally logged areas in the Amazon rainforest.
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Greenpeace "congratulated" Brazilian soya traders who have agreed to extend for another year the moratorium on purchasing soybeans grown on illegally logged areas in the Amazon rainforest.
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