The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous
For anyone who cares about the, there will be an extra reason to celebrate the new year countdown in Brazil on 31 December because the first stroke of midnight will mark the last moment in power of Jair Bolsonaro.
, here are seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023, and three reminders of why that’s no excuse for anyone to drop their guard.Anyone would feel a relief after the firestorm that was Bolsonaro. Here is the baseline the outgoing president leaves. Data from Brazil’s space agency confirms no other leader has overseen such a sharp increase in deforestation –– since satellite records began in 1988.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets Assurini Indigenous leaders from the Amazon in Belém, Pará state, Brazil.The transition team has asked for 536m reais additional cash. The money would be used for field operations against illegal miners and loggers, firefighting units, and a resumption of incentives for smallholders to maintain forests and rivers.
A police officer observes an illegal goldmine during an operation conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources , in national parks near Novo Progresso, Pará state.The fate of the rainforest is not decided in the Amazon, but in the overseas markets that buy its beef, wood, soy and iron ore. So another piece of good news in 2022 was.
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