Is Brazil’s Forest Code failing to reduce deforestation?

Mongabay
Jul 6, 2017, 7:55 am142 pts
Brazil’s Forest Code, a set of laws passed in 2012 to protect the country’s vast wooded landscapes, carried with it the promise of stopping illegal deforestation and continuing the country’s trajectory toward ever-lower deforestation. The laws were built around a system to register farmers with claims to…

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