New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Mongabay
May 27, 2021, 2:54 pm155 pts
An expansive clearing of primary forest has been detected in a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly driven by illegal mining activities. In March, the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) lab at the University of Maryland detected an area of newly cleared forest in the Tapajós Environmental…

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