Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19 (Photo Essay)

Mongabay
Jun 3, 2020, 12:27 pm414 pts
When we drove into an agrarian reform settlement in Rondônia state in the Brazilian Amazon last September, we were not welcomed, but received with suspicion. No one asked our names. Nor did we proceed with the traditional journalistic practice of requesting and writing down the full names, ages and occupations…

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