[andreshb]

Activities like extensive logging for cattle ranching are driven by economic returns, global agreements and policy is not enough. There has to be a competing economic alternative that makes it more profitable to preserve rather than destroy the rainforest.

[xyzwave]

Well the Amazon is often referred to as “the world's largest medicine cabinet”, so there’s that.

[xkcd-sucks]

If only aliens would show up and pay us for samples of unique living things