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Facebook Enabling Amazon Land Grabbing, Deforestation, Finds Investigation
BBC Brasil penetrated deep within criminal networks illegally selling and deforesting conserved lands even within an Indigenous reserve. In a new twist, some land grabbers are posting the plots they’re selling on Facebook.
BySue Branford and Thais Borges
Published on 3/4/2021 at 1:55 PM
In a powerful new documentary broadcast on 26 February, entitled Selling the Amazon, BBC Brasil went undercover to show how illegal land grabbers are moving in on public land in the Brazilian Amazon, including within protected areas clearing rainforest and selling plots to ranchers at highly inflated prices. In a modern twist that is attracting international attention, the documentary showed plots of public land being openly advertised on Facebook.