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Academics and environmental activists have warned that if Jair Bolsonaro remains president of Brazil, the Amazon rainforest will collapse, despite a new government assault on forest protections.
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Amazon in Danger
Despite evidence that fire, drought, and land clearing are accelerating the Amazon s decline, they claim the far-right leader is more concerned with appeasing the strong agriculture lobby and leveraging global markets that reward harmful behavior.
The assault on forest protections has accelerated. The lower chamber was set to vote on measures on Wednesday that would reward land squatters by legalizing ownership of land that had been unlawfully occupied and cleared before 2014.