In famed Chico Mendes reserve, Brazil nut harvesters fight to save the forest

Mongabay
Apr 22, 2020, 12:19 pm237 pts
View of the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, still one of the largest sections of preserved forest in Acre state. Image by Flavio Forner. Sitting on the porch of his house in the community of Porvir, inside the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian state of Acre, Severino da Silva Brito looks out at…

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