'The Bolsonaro administration is abetting deforestation and environmental crime,' says obsclima's MarcioAstrini, 'and what we harvest are these terrible, scary, revolting numbers.'
that"the Amazon is open for business"—of encouraging the illegal logging, mining, and clearance for farming and cattle grazing that is devastating the Amazon.that"the Bolsonaro administration is abetting deforestation and environmental crime, and what we harvest are these terrible, scary, revolting numbers.
"The weakening of environmental inspection bodies is not by chance, it is a perverse project that has as one of the main results the prescription of environmental crimes without criminals being punished," Greenpeace Brazil Amazon coordinator André Freitas"With the certainty of impunity, what is already bad will get worse if bills that aim to legalize land grabbing, make environmental licensing more flexible, and open Indigenous lands for mining are approved," he added,...
During an appearance last month at the Free Land Camp—site of a 10-day protest by over 170 Indigenous groups—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former leftist Brazilian president who is seeking to oust Bolsonaro in this October's election, to immediately revoke the current government's policies, to ban mining on Indigenous lands, and to create a Ministry of Indigenous Peoples if he wins.in March of a study warning that the ability of the Amazon rainforest to recover from devastating droughts and wildfires has been declining over the past two decades, driving the crucial ecosystem toward a tipping point from which it might not recover.
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