SkyAlfa Foundation is a non-profit Organisation based in London UK. It's Aim is to support the protection and conservation of the wildlife in the Latin American Rainforests and to support local indigenous populations in their struggle to protect their environment and traditional way of life
(extract translated from the original article of Oliviero Pluviano; special envoy/reporter in the Amazon for the Italian Press Agency ANSA )
Latin American Rainforests are threatened by “ethanol”, the biofuel of the future. Extracted from the sugarcane, ethanol is going through a “golden age” in modern Brasil. The ethanol golden age also re dubbed the “green boom” is causing a slow and painful death of the Amazon Rainforest. The uncontrolled huge expansion of sugarcane plantations has now reached and penetrated the largest “green lung” in the world. Brasil is the largest ethanol producer in the world. Sugarcane plantations originated in the Sao Paulo State, Minas Gerais and the North East ( Bahia and Pernambuco ) and have now expanded to the Central Region of Brasil ( Goias and Mato Grosso do Sul ) and are spreading to the heart of the Amazon. Brasil is very proud of their dual fuel powered car engines that can operate either on gasoline or ethanol. All the major plantations of coffee, oranges etc. that diversified the environment of the Sao Paulo state have now disappeared. Sugarcane has become the “way of life” for million of people and like a cancer, keeps spreading towards each corner of Brasil.
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