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The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a roads plan could push it past its breaking point

WALKER – The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a roads plan could push it past its breaking point Robert Walker Article first published online: 22 March 2023 URL: https://theconversation.com/the-amazon-is-not-safe-under-brazils-new-president-a-roads-plan-could-push-it-past-its-breaking-point-200691 ABSTRACT: Conservationists breathed a sigh of relief when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Brazil’s presidential election in the fall of 2022. His […]

Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro

UF Geography’s Dr. Robert Walker discusses indigenous rights, conservation, and global climate change in his latest piece in The Conversation: Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the the ongoing destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest. Twenty percent of it has been deforested by […]