Brazil Abolishes Vast Amazonian Reserve

Brazil has opened up to miners an Amazonian natural reserve the size of Denmark. The government said nine conservation and indigenous land areas within it would continue to be legally protected but activists have voiced major concerns.
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Photo: A man on a motorbike looks at a truck as it transports illegally harvested Amazon rainforest logs on a road near protected indigenous land in the Amazon. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.