🌿 Environment 11h ago · Fernanda Wenzel

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

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Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road
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Heavy machinery will soon be working on the road that may determine the future of the Amazon Rainforest: On April 13, the Brazilian government issued calls for four bids to pave the controversial BR-319 highway. Inaugurated in 1976 to connect two major Amazonian municipalities, Manaus and Porto Velho, the BR-319 runs 885 kilometers (550 miles) and crosses one of the best-preserved areas of the Brazilian Amazon, home to 69 Indigenous territories and 41 conservation units. The middle section of th

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