deforestation

Indigenous lands block Brazil deforestation: study

According to a research published Tuesday, Brazil’s indigenous reservations have operated as a deforestation barrier for the previous three decades, while devastation of the Amazon rainforest has escalated recently under President Jair Bolsonaro.   According to MapBiomas, a joint project of several environmental groups, colleges, and startups, only 1.6 percent of the 69 million hectares (266,000 square miles) of native

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