Mongabay: WWF criticized Brazil’s plan to reduce Amazon deforestation to 5,740 square kilometers per year as being “short on ambition and detail”. In a statement issued Wednesday, WWF said that Brazil’s proposed fund for conserving the Amazon would still result in the annual loss of an area forest the size of Rhode Island. “The CO2 released from clearing this area of Amazon forest would be roughly equivalent to the current annual emissions of Canada,” said Carlos Alberto de Mattos …