Brazil’s rainforest areas are the country’s crown jewel and unfortunately deforestation of these regions was rampart over previous decades as a result of expanding agriculture. Soy and cocoa are two of Brazil’s biggest cash crops and the proliferation of farmlands for these products has wiped out large swaths of rain forest. According to the World Wildlife Fund, 90 percent the Atlantic Forest ecosystem in southern Brazil has been wiped out due to the cocoa boom of the 1970s.