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Scant progress made in saving Amazon rain forest

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1992 Earth Summit hasn't slowed destruction

June 24, 1997
Web posted at: 6:19 p.m. EDT (2219 GMT)

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- The Amazon rain forest -- the world's largest -- is dwindling at an alarming rate, despite a 1992 pledge by world leaders to preserve it.

As those leaders gathered for the second United Nations Earth Summit this week, CNN's Marina Mirabella visited Brazil to view the Amazon basin's destruction, and learn why it continues unabated.


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