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Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro

  • Written by Robert T. Walker, Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Munduruku tribal people are demanding that Brazil's government respect their land rights.AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the the ongoing destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest. Twenty percent of it has been deforested by now – an area...

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