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The closest state capital, Cuiabá, is only 1,767km away
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The vehicles — carrying three international journalists and staff from WWF and local partner Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM) — are loaded with equipment and supplies to endure a grueling 100km-drive on one of Brazil’s longest highways
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It also offers insurance products exclusively to brokers via the Highway and ABC Insurance brands
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It is also home to traditional communities
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LV= is the UK's largest friendly society and a leading mutual financial services provider, providing home insurance and car insurance well as travel and pet insurance direct to consumers
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“Highway development in Brazil has led to large-scale deforestation and the exploitation of other natural resources brought about by newly developed settlements and increased logging and agriculture activities,” said Mauro Armelin, WWF-Brazil’s sustainable development programme coordinator
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This gives an overall value of the entire issued share capital of Highway of £150m
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Web Site: http://www.lv.com Contact Details: For further information please contact: Emma Holyer Press Office LV= 69 Park Lane Croydon CR9 1BG 0208 256 6714
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Created in 1974, its 545,000 hectares are home to numerous bird and tree species
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“Before, I used to go from one place to another and had nothing,” Neguinho said
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Here, one side is bordered by the Tapajós National Forest
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There are currently 1,900 families living in and around the forest, divided among 29 communities and organized into nine community associations and one cooperative
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It is early, shortly past 6am and the weather is hot and muggy, already 28°C, with some light showers — a typical winter day in the Amazon
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Conservationists fear that paving the entire highway would lead to further destruction of the Amazon
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This may have disastrous results for the environment
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Highway shareholders also received their interim dividend of 1.65p, payable at the start of October 2008
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- ends - About LV=: LV= is a trademark of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited (LVFS) and LV= is a trading style of the Liverpool Victoria group of companies
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It’s a cloudy Tuesday morning and three 4X4s are leaving downtown Santarém in the northern Brazilian state of Pará towards Highway BR-163, one of the main roads cutting through the heart of the Amazon rainforest
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Much of the road is still unpaved, often muddy and impassable during the wet season
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Long distance, high impact Distances along the highway are astronomical — 2,910km to the capital, Brasília, 3,922km to São Paulo, 4,114km to Rio de Janeiro
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Off road Leaving the highway for one of the many unpaved side roads, open pasture land and highly deforested areas could be seen just about everywhere
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The side road we chose took us to the headquarters of Maflops, a forest management company that uses sustainable wood exploitation techniques and supports community forest management
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LV Completes Acquisition of Highway Insurance Group Released on: October 17, 2008, 6:08 am Press Release Author: LV= Industry: Financial Press Release Summary: LV has announced that it has completed it's acquisition of the Highway Insurance Group Press Release Body: LV=, the UK based insurance, investment and pensions group, has announced its acquisition of the Highway Insurance Group, which includes Highway Insurance and Hero Insurance Services, further expanding the fast growing general insurance division of LV=
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The 1,770km-long highway connects Santarem to Cuiaba in the southern part of Mato Grosso State
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The only paved part of the BR-163 in Pará is near Santarém
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I have my home, family and plot of land with 2,300 pepper plants.” Seu Neguinho added that settlers often face pressure from developers interested in buying their land
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But when they get to the city they see that it’s not enough money and end up going hungry.” Given the fact that the value of the land surrounding the highway is set to increase once BR-163 is paved, clashes over land tenure and development are expected to increase
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Despite reluctance to talk to members of the media and conservation organizations, one of the soldiers explains that they are building a waterway, and that the paving work would be intensified next month once the rainy season has finished
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Fenchurch Advisory Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to LV while Shore Capital Stockbrokers acted as corporate broker to LV=
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Four herdsmen were using the short strip of pavement to drive their cattle from one farm to another
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Now they won’t be back here for another 20 years,” said Seu Neguinho, president of a local residents association in Santo Antônio, who moved to Pará in 2001 to work in the gold mines of the Itaituba region
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The Brazilian government wants to eventually pave the entire length of the road to facilitate the transportation of soy production and other commercial crops
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They will be our future trees to explore in the cycles to come.” After lunch at the Maflops headquarters, the next stop is Santo Antônio, a small village in the Moju Agrarian Settlement
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On average, a settlement plot of land consists of 100ha, of which 20 per cent can be cut for housing material or cleared for small vegetable gardens
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BR-163 was built in the 1970s as part of a government plan to develop the Amazon region
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Despite its completion in 1972, 956km are still unpaved, and many of the paved parts are in desperate need of repair
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One recent study conducted on another highway in the Amazon region indicates that a majority of deforestation takes place within the first 50km from the road
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While one side of the highway is protected, the other side has only small patches of forest, with the rest of the area laid waste by large soy plantations or pastures
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It was near one of these pastures that our convoy had to pull over to the side of the highway to make way for a huge herd of a 1,000 cattle
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“We think in the long term and work in previously defined areas,” stresses company manager Antonio Abelardo Leite
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“We always leave a certain number of trees remaining, especially seed-producing trees
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“Maflops has already harvested parts of my plot
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“People come here and offer 100,000 Reais (U$52,000) for our land
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Dialogue It is 4pm and time to return to Santarém
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Taking an alternative road back to BR-163, we pass the Brazilian army doing road maintenance
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This acquisition makes sound strategic sense and will assist us in our stated ambition to become a top five insurer in our chosen markets by 2012." He continued, "Highway is highly complementary to our existing general insurance operations and will provide a strong platform for growth
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Andrew Gibson, Chief Executive of Highway, will be staying on in an advisory capacity until the end of the year, when he will be leaving to explore opportunities outside the LV= Group
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The remaining 80 per cent is managed by Maflops
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Many sell because they think it’s a lot of money and that the amount will solve all their problems
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