Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Mongabay
Oct 31, 2018, 1:19 pm121 pts
One reserve is already gone and ten others are likely to go within the next few weeks when the legislature of one of Brazilian Amazonia’s most anti-environmental states votes on overriding a veto from the state governor. The 11 protected areas total 537,000 hectares (3 percent of the state), and four of them…

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