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The main activities of reserve’s 60,000 inhabitants include organic agriculture, stockbreeding and eco-tourism.

“My mind is lit up with other things now; I’m looking into agriculture and stockbreeding,” he told the interviewer.

Key causes of Amazon deforestation are illegal trafficking in timber and minerals, fires and the spread of agriculture and stockbreeding.

Stockbreeding was very much easier and according to their ideas required no particular exertion on their part.

The preference of the earlier Spanish settlers for stockbreeding also limited the agricultural area.