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Explain the economic reason why some Brazilians wish to cut down the rain forest in Brazil.

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Cattle ranching and infrastructure

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The Brazilian government initially attributed 38% of all forest loss between 1966 and 1975 to large-scale cattle ranching. ... Forest removal to make way for cattle ranching was the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from the mid-1960s on.

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