Brazil: Amazon rainforest deforestation advancing at its fastest rate during May

Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

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Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil sped up in May to the fastest rate in a decade, according to data from an early-warning satellite system, as experts pointed to activity by illegal loggers encouraged by the easing of environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
This comes to show the real side of Jair Bolsonaro: a man who presents himself as religious but whose real God is but the almighty dollar.

A destroyed Amazon will never come back; its fragile soils will be washed away and the original biodiversity will never be back.

What a sad example of human recklessness.
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@Enrique Massot

REF: “What a sad example of human recklessness.”:

But at least SOMETHING is advancing at its fastest rate during May! You sound as if the end of the world is just around the corner! [Maybe, you are not wrong!]
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