For 50 years, Philip Fearnside has calculated the costs of losing the Amazon

Mongabay
Aug 30, 2026, 8:04 pm69 ptsTrending
At a September 2021 public hearing in Manaus, Philip Fearnside read from a prepared statement laying out his case against repaving BR-319, the highway between Manaus and Porto Velho, two cities in the Amazon. He called the project economically unviable, argued Brazil’s licensing process was broken, and warned…

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