Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

Mongabay
Oct 8, 2018, 1:20 pm359 pts
Rio Machado, one of the scrapped protected areas. Image courtesy of SEDAM. On 25 September, state deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Rondonia, after less than an hour of discussion, abolished 11 protected areas, covering about 600,000 hectares (2,316 square miles), equivalent to about 3 percent of the…

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