AdvertisementBrazil Claims Success In Protecting Amazon RainforestNovember 27, 2012Krishnadev CalamurfacebookEmailA truck carrying hardwood timber drives along a rural road leading to Paragominas, Brazil, on Sept. 23, 2011. The city has become a pioneering "Green City," a model of sustainability with a new economic approach that has seen illegal deforestation virtually halted. (AP)