Protecting Brazil’s Amazon could be a bargain — if the government were willing to pay

Mongabay
Jul 4, 2022, 11:41 am328 pts
To convert around 80% of the Brazilian Amazon into environmental conservation areas would cost Brazil just over half of what the European Union spends to maintain all of its own conservation areas. Hectare for hectare, it would work out hundreds of times cheaper. That’s the conclusion from a study published…

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