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Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell
by Ana Ionova on 23 July 2021
Highway BR-319 runs some 885 km (550 mi) from Rondonia’s capital of Porto Velho to Manaus, the Amazon’s largest city.
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has pledged pave the portion of BR-319 that runs through the southern part of the state of Amazonas to ease the transportation of timber and, eventually, soy out of the remote, densely forested region.
Environmentalists and researchers say this has encouraged outsiders to illegally invade and deforest large areas of intact forest.
Satellite data and imagery shows deforestation has increased along the southern portion of the road in 2021, including in and near protected areas.