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Fields growing soybeans for the global market have replaced dense rainforest along the Brazilian Amazon’s 'arc of deforestation.'

For illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, 'there is no fear of being punished'

October 3, 2018
The Amazon's carbon tipping point

Money for protecting the Brazilian Amazon is drying up, while big landowners along the region's "arc of deforestation" are pushing the government to ease up on regulations. Both spell disaster in the battle to preserve the world's largest tropical forest.

For illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon, 'there is no fear of being punished'

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