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Timber is stacked in piles at a sawmill in Anapu, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The rate of deforestation Brazil's Amazon rain forest dropped 18 percent over the last year, according to a report by the country's environment minister in November. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Timber is stacked in piles at a sawmill in Anapu, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The rate of deforestation Brazil's Amazon rain forest dropped 18 percent over the last year, according to a report by the country's environment minister in November. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images