Purus-Madeira: journey to the Amazon’s newest deforestation frontier

Mongabay
Oct 1, 2018, 11:24 am321 pts
When we arrived in Realidade, in Amazonas state in the Madeira basin, we were received with immediate suspicion. Our first stop was at the sawmill of Adilson Balbinotti, an agitated man in his 50’s. As we parked our pickup truck, he ducked his head in the passenger window and spotted our cameras, GPS units…

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