The country’s deforestation rate is now negligible.

现在哥斯达黎加的森林退化完全可以忽略不计了。

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Brazil's deforestation rate has dropped astoundingly fast.

巴西的森林砍伐率急剧下降，令人吃惊。

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But even before that Brazil's deforestation rate had slumped.

但在此之前，巴西的毁林速度已有所放缓。

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He said for the first time, the rate of deforestation has decreased around the world.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

However,Mister Rojas said the rate of deforestation is still very high in many areas.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Last October, Brazil said the rate of deforestation plunged 41 percent because of the enforcement of environmental laws.

CNN: Developers, ranchers encroaching on many of world's forests

Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.

CNN: Brazil delays vote on bill regulating deforestation

In 1992 Mr Gore asserted that 20% of the Amazon had been deforested and that deforestation continued at the rate of 80m hectares a year.

ECONOMIST: Plenty of gloom