Enforcement Efforts to Slow Amazon Deforestation Plummet Under New Brazilian President

Yale e360
Jun 12, 2019, 12:32 pm204 pts
Since taking office in January, the nationalist Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has gutted key agencies responsible for monitoring and stopping deforestation in the Amazon, leading to a steep drop in enforcement actions in the world’s largest tropical forest, according to an investigation by the…

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