By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil could reach historically low levels of deforestation in one to two years, the head of the environmental pr.
By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil could reach historically low levels of deforestation in one to two years, the head of the environmental pr.
After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to government satellite data.
Brazil s environment
protection agency Ibama is expected to decide by early next year
if state-run oil company Petrobras can drill near the
mouth of the Amazon River, Ibama s president Rodrigo.