By weakening Brazil’s key environmental institutions, president Jair Bolsonaro has allowed organised crime groups to make mass land grabs, leading to violent clashes with Indigenous people and accelerating the destruction of the rainforest.
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As a regional coordinator at Brazil’s National Indian Foundation , Jussielson Gonçalves Silva was tasked with protecting forests in the western state of Mato Grosso. Instead, he and two other Funai officials were leasing Indigenous reserves to cattle ranchers for kickbacks worth up to US$190,000 a month, according to Brazil’s federal police, who
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