Amazon rainforest’s final frontier under threat from oil and...

Amazon rainforest’s final frontier under threat from oil and soya

Celso Carlos has made a modest living for 10 years growing manioc and coconuts and rearing poultry on a few hectares of lowland in Brazil’s northern Amazon.

But three years ago, out of the blue, Carlos was told by an Amapá state judge that he had to move because his land had been bought by a businessman living more than 1,500 miles away in São Paulo. Within months, fences had been put up, and Carlos and other assentados, or settlers, had been forced off their land.

Disponível em: <https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/16amazon-rainforest-final-frontier-in-brazil-under-threat-from-oil-and-soya>. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2017.

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