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This article talks about human pressure on the Amazon forest. 22% of the forest has been deforested for human settlement according to the article, and 11% of the Amazon has been deforested for cattle farming. Between 2000-2002, forest fires tripled (16,000 to 42,000). The last interesting statistics this article states is that the mean annual deforestation rates from 2000-2005 was 18% higher then the previous 5 years.