What Gold Miners In A Bar Boasted They’d Done To A Never Before Contacted Amazonian Tribe, Is Truly Disturbing
10. Michel Temer and the Amazon
Brazilian president Michel Temer ignited a heated debate this past August shortly after the massacre made headlines when he issued a decree abolishing a protected area referred to as Renca- to open the land up to commercial mining. Critics responded saying that this move would speed up the already dangerously accelerated issue of deforestation in the Amazon. A Brazillian senator even referred to this decree as “the biggest attack on the Amazon of the last 50 years”.
Many researchers also agreed with this criticism, as the decree sought to dismantle legal protections set up around protecting a forest area larger than whole European countries, such as Denmark and Switzerland!
