Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric

Mongabay
May 27, 2021, 3:41 pm216 pts
The Xingu River Basin, one of the most biodiverse regions of the Brazilian Amazon, is reeling from an explosion of illegal deforestation that has coincided with the rise and presidency of far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro. According to a recent report by the Xingu+ Network, based on its Sirad deforestation…

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