Brazil provokes controversy over Amazon protection law
Thursday, 15th December 2011 by Rachel Hall
For Brazil, a country in which the Amazon forest covers 60 per cent of the land area, environmental issues are never far from the table. So when the Brazilian senate approved legislation on 6 December updating the nation’s forestry code, controversy was bound to ensue.
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