New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay
Apr 12, 2021, 7:12 pm205 pts
In a far-flung stretch of the Brazilian Amazon, the dense rainforest is slowly giving way to neat rows of oil palm that stretch for miles. Beyond the plantations, a narrow strip of forest – some of it already razed – separates the plantations from the Waimiri-Atroari Indigenous Territory. There, in…

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