Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Conservationists and climate campaigners on Friday renewed criticism of Brazil ian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro --who faces a runoff later this month--after government data revealed deforestation in Brazil 's Amazon rainforest broke yet another record last month. 'The Bolsonaro government is a forest-destroying machine.
He said that 'they can see that their president could lose the election so they're taking advantage of this final stretch of Bolsonaro to tear down everything they possibly can.' If Bolsonaro's government 'is given another four years, the Amazon's future will be uncertain,' Astrini added. 'What's at stake here is either us continuing to have any hope that the Amazon can be kept from collapsing--or definitively surrendering it to environmental criminals.
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