Amazon community steps in to protect a reserve the government won't

Four years since the Brazilian government signed an executive order declaring a half-million-hectare sustainable-use reserve in the Amazon, the area remains protected on paper only — leaving it open to plunder and its residents… The Lower Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive Reserve, or Resex, spans 581,173 hectares (1.4 million acres) — an area almost four times the […]

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