Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Mongabay
Apr 12, 2018, 12:20 pm374 pts
Provisional Measures (MPs) were originally instituted as a means of taking emergency action. But over the years, MPs have been employed by the executive branch to dismember conservation units in the Amazon rainforest and elsewhere. Last week’s Supreme Court ruling disallows that practice. Photo by Rhett A.…

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