Mining threat to indigenous lands
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is proposing a controversial bill to allow commercial mining on protected indigenous lands, a move that environmentalists say can only speed up deforestation
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VENEZUELA 
COLOMBIA
BRAZIL
BOLIVIA
PERU

Amazon region

*Tree cover loss 2011-18

500km 310 miles
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Conservation areas
Strict protection 
Sustainable use 
Deforestation*
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Indigenous land
Almost 13 per cent of Brazilian territory
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DEFORESTATION OF AMAZON RAINFOREST (square kilometres, 000s)

Deforestation in Amazon – vital carbon store that slows down pace of global warming – soared in 2019, first year of right-winger Bolsonaro’s presidency


2016 2017 2018 2019

2.4 
2.0 
1.6 
1.2 
0.8 
0.4 
0
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Picture: Getty Images
Sources: Global Forest Watch, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), RAISG
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