Independent: Deforestation is a challenge of enormous proportions, and it is a challenge that is going to permeate this century. Brazil still has 60 per cent of its territory covered by forests. This is a tremendous advantage, and an enormous responsibility. What can we do to protect it? When I was Environment Minister, I made a great effort to reduce land clearing; concentrating on combating illegal activities we had a 47 per cent drop in deforestation; approximately 1,500 illegal companies were …