In her new book, 'Planet Palm,' journalist Jocelyn Zuckerman investigates the devastating environmental, health, and human costs of the global palm oil industry.
The Xingu River Basin, one of the most biodiverse regions of the Brazilian Amazon, is reeling from an explosion of illegal deforestation that has coincided with the rise and presidency of far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro.
For the past several years, Colombia's Tinigua National Natural Park has been racked by one of the highest levels of deforestation of any such protected area in the country.
President Jair Bolsonaro is moving aggressively to open up the Amazon rainforest to commercial development, posing an existential threat to the tribes living there.
