New laws may turn Brazil's forests into mines

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisNov 7, 2014, 5:06 pm90 pts
With the world’s largest system of protected areas and a 70 percent drop in the deforestation rate of the Amazon over the past decade, Brazil has made huge strides in safeguarding what’s left of its wilderness. However, this progress now hangs in the balance, with new laws threatening to turn many of the…

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