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    The BR-319 is now passable in the dry season due to a "maintenance" program begun in 2016 - Photo: P.M. Fearnside.

    Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway

    The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...

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    Philip M. Fearnside
    Commodities on the move on the completed southern section of the BR-163 Highway - Roosevelt Pinheiro / Agência Brasil

    For the Military, the Brazilian Indian Is a Savage and an Obstacle to Progress

    The media portrayal of Brazil’s annual fire season — which in 2020 is trending ...

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    Peter Speetjens
    A fire in a deforested area in Amazonas state, Brazil. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

    Brazil Determined to Hand Monitoring of Amazon Deforestation and Fire to the Military

    In a recent announcement, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão defended the creation of a ...

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    Jenny Gonzales
    Women strip away the outer husk of the babassu palm nut. Image by Peter Caton courtesy of ISPN

    Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado

    Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...

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    Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo