Tag: BR319 highway

• Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 07:38 UTC

  Fears of 'deforestation rush' in tropical rain forest if Brazilian congress passes bill to pave Amazon highway

  

  The lower house of Brazil's Congress passed a bill that allows the paving of highway BR319, which crosses the heart of the Amazon basin and which scientists and environmentalists claim threatens the future of the world's largest tropical rainforest. The bill still has to be approved by the Senate.