Brazil - 10% of national parks and indigenous lands face mining threat

The Ecologist
Nov 7, 2014, 6:34 am35 pts
Legislation put forward by Brazil's re-elected President Dilma Rousseff would open up to 10% of any protected area in the country to mining, writes Luke Parry. The effect would be to gut nature conservation in Brazil, already in a perilous state due to underfunding and growing pressure for the development of…

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