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As Bolsonaro keeps Amazon vows, Brazil's Indigenous fear 'ethnocide'
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As Bolsonaro keeps Amazon vows, Brazil's Indigenous fear 'ethnocide'

President Jair Bolsonaro is moving aggressively to open up the Amazon rainforest to commercial development, posing an existential threat to the tribes living there.
Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon
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Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Brazil’s bancada ruralista has attached a wave of riders to bills in Congress that could overthrow the nation’s environmental and indigenous protections. There is a high chance of passage.
Belo Monte legacy: Harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction
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Belo Monte legacy: Harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction

Operational in 2016, the Belo Monte mega-dam has done lasting damage to forests, fisheries, livelihoods, and indigenous and traditional communities

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands
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Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Experts say 2017 Brazilian wildfires were caused not principally by drought, but mostly set by people, and worsened by human-caused forest degradation. Agency budget cuts worsened the crisis.
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