In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Mongabay
Jul 27, 2023, 11:00 pm212 pts
In a remote corner of the Brazilian Amazon, federal police agents hovered in helicopters above a massive gash in the rainforest canopy. Below them, gaping craters and muddy pools of wastewater pockmarked the coffee-colored soil. When the heavily armed squad touched down, it found a deforested area the size of…

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