This week, 100 countries, representing 85% of the world’s forests, pledged to end deforestation at the COP26 summit. But it might be too late for Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, which is being stolen and destroyed at an accelerating pace.
The value of wood as a commodity and the growing demand for agricultural and pastoral land is leading to the often illegal felling of forests.
Environmental-crime prosecutors describe a fraud scheme that turns poor Brazilians into foot soldiers for criminal gangs, logging companies, and industrial farming operations.
Many of the families can’t make it on their own and end up abandoning land or selling it cheap to big farmers.
Farms are already being consolidated into industrial-size ranches, tearing apart the ecosystem and reducing the Amazon's ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
In addition, Bolsonaro’s government is fanning the flames. In each his first 2 years in office, the Amazon recorded more than 10,000 square km of deforestation, a number that hadn’t been recorded for a single year in over a decade.
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