Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, is to take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Petro has promised to limit agribusiness expansion into the forest, and create reserves where indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products.
He has also pledged income from carbon credits to finance replanting.
“From Colombia, we will give humanity a reward, a remedy, a solution: not to burn the Amazon rainforest anymore, to recover it to its natural frontier, to give humanity the possibility of life on
New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest
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