Brazil’s deforestation “sheriff” has been fired

Mongabay
Apr 28, 2017, 3:35 pm167 pts
There’s been a major shakeup in the Brazilian government’s anti-deforestation department. A little more than a year after being named Brazil’s deforestation “sheriff,” Thelma Krug has reportedly been fired after a dispute over how trends in forest destruction are monitored in the country. Climate…

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