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Environmental and Indigenous Activists Criticize Proposed Deal to Save Rainforests

On Wednesday Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Obama administration would commit 1 billion dollars over the next three years toward a proposed global scheme to preserve tropical forests. Its called REDD or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. As countries attempt to hammer out a final deal before the end of the summit, Anjali Kamat files a report featuring a range of concerns over what this UN-backed proposal could mean for the future of the worlds rainforests and forest-dwellers