var items = new Array (new ImageMetaData('A man walks past charcoal kilns in Tailandia, state of Para, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. About 200 heavily armed troops of Brazil elite National Police Force Monday arrived in a remote town in the northern jungle state of Para to boost efforts to crack down on illegal logging. The campaign is part of a larger government push to prevent an apparent increase in illegal logging and jungle burning that threatens to reverse three straight years of declines in Amazon deforestation. (AP Photo/Renato Chalu) \n','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080321/080321-brazil-logging-hmed-335a.jpg','6:44 a.m. ET, 3/21/08','Renato Chalu / AP','AP',23742178),new ImageMetaData('In this Sept. 2009 photo, Severiano Pontes, center, Bruno Iespa, right, and a soldier measure out an illegally cut tree near Novo Progresso in Brazil\'s northern state of Paral.  Environmental agents patrol the Amazon to prevent illegal clearing, part of Brazil\'s new effort to preserve a jungle the size of the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. ','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/ap/b18e00c7-7d4d-4cba-ae5c-dda1f708e70d.jpg','1:46 a.m. ET, 11/27/09','Bradley Brooks / AP','AP',34168489),new ImageMetaData('(FILE) Handout picture released by the Brazilian Environment Ministry showing a deforested area in the rain forest in southern Para state, on October 2008. Brazil experienced the smallest loss of its sprawling Amazon rainforest over the past year in more than two decades, the government said, attributing the change to its tougher environmental policies. The region, considered the world\'s "lungs" for its capacity to absorb carbon emissions, still lost 7,000 square kilometers (2,700 square miles) of rainforest between July 2008 and July 2009.\n','http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/afp/dv_to_getty_3200657_0.jpg','8:12 a.m. ET, 11/13/09','JEFFERSON RUDDY / AFP/Getty Images','AFP',33907033));