🌿 Environment 10h ago · Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it.

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Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it.
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For protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the most basic questions is not where the boundary lies. It is whether anyone has the money to manage what sits inside it. A reserve may exist in law. It may appear on maps, in international pledges, and in official counts of how much of Brazil is under protection. On the ground, though, management depends on less visible things: staff, fuel, boats, radios, boundary markers, fire brigades, monitoring, community work, and the ability to respond

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