-0002- Scientists consider teh Amazon Rainforest critical to Earths biodiversity and to controlling the atmospheric carbon that is driving climate change. This essential resource has long been threatened by rampant deforestation, typically the result of loggin or clearning land for agriculture. Efforts by nations in the region secceeded in reducing rates of deforestation by more than 80 percent between 2004 and 2012. Sadly, policies protecting the rainforest have been undermined by powerful ranching and loggin interests. In 2016 alone, deforestaion increased 29 percent.Based on the evidence in the passage, the authors statment that efforts to protect the Amazon Rainforest were undermined by ranching and logging interests is best characterized as:

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