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The great Amazon land grab – how Brazil's government is turning public land private, clearing the way for deforestation

  • Written by Gabriel Cardoso Carrero, Graduate Student Fellow and PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Florida
imageA satellite captured large and small deforestation patches in Amazonas State in 2015. The forest loss has escalated since then.USGS/NASA Landsat data/Orbital Horizon/Gallo Images/Getty Images

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