Deforestation rates in the Amazon forest highest in a decade

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In 2018, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest has hit its highest rate in a decade. And the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro has NGOs and scientists even more worried...

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00:30If Naipete is elected, it is the beginning of wine in the Amazon.

01:00We want you to have legal security, that your land is not invaded and stay for that

01:12reason.

01:13We want an end to the industry of fines practiced by IBAMA and CMBIU together with the countryside.

01:20The fact represents a vision of the environment that perhaps is from 50, 100 years ago, or

01:42even before that, in the 18th century, as if we had to conquer the territory, instead

01:48of looking at the environment as an asset.

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