Brazil’s Amazon rainforest at risk as key protection under threat

Justin Rowlatt,Climate editor and

Jessica Cruz,South America producer

BBC / Tony Jolliffe A rainforest stops where an area is cleared to make way for a soya plantation. Next to a line of trees, there is a brown open field with a single tree standing in the middle. BBC / Tony Jolliffe

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it.

The ban – which…

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