Brazil’s BR-319 Highway: The latest maneuver to obtain approval for an environmental disaster (commentary)

Mongabay
Jun 16, 2024, 8:23 pm484 ptsHotTop
Brazil’s Amazon deforestation has traditionally been primarily in the “arc of deforestation” along the southern and eastern edges of the forest, but highways connecting this arc, such as the BR-163 (Santarém-Cuiabá) highway, are allowing this destruction to expand to rainforest areas to the north. Of…

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