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May 29, 2019

Deforestation of Amazon Up by 20% Over 9 Months
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In more news from Brazil, a nonprofit environmental group is warning
that deforestation of the Amazon rainforest increased by 20% in just the
last nine months. Experts say logging and land invasion are to blame for
much of the loss. President Jair Bolsonaro and his environment minister
have worked to open the Amazon even further to logging, mining and
agribusiness companies while violating the land rights of indigenous
peoples. Earlier this month, eight former environment ministers warned
that Bolsonaro's administration was systematically destroying Brazil's
environmental policies, with one former minister saying Brazil was
becoming an "exterminator of the future."


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