Amazon mining unleashed (commentary)

Mongabay
Sep 15, 2017, 1:05 pm104 pts
On August 23, 2017, Brazil’s president Michel Temer issued a decree revoking the RENCA (National Reserve of Copper and Associated Minerals), an area the size of Switzerland on the northern side of the Amazon River straddling the states of Pará and Amapá. The Ministry of Environment had not been consulted…

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