livestock breeding didn't start until 978. set then they were. back then this set has came in troops fleeing poverty in the north east of brazil to exploit the wealth of the rain forest. if you could see a photograph from back then you wouldn't believe your eyes there was nothing here but forest. uncontrolled settlement led to a host of environmental disasters. the conquest of western brazil began in 1970 with the construction of the trans amazonian highway the plan of the military regime at the time was to open up as the slogan went land without men in the amazon for men without land in the north east. for 4000 kilometers the highway cuts like