A river that developers have their eye on. Marina Mirabella has our story.
Brazil is known as the country with the world's largest rainforest.
And for years, many have been concerned about the destruction of the Amazon. Located in the heart of South America, it is the world's largest wetlands area. There are more than two-thousand species of birds and animals here, many of them rare. Ecologists are worried about a plan to build a water highway on the Paraguay-Parana rivers that cut through the panatanal. The project calls for straightening and dredging the rivers, and removing rock formations to allow year-round shipping.