Amid growing climate anxiety, we investigate the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Since the late 1970s, some one million square kilometres of Amazonian forest have been destroyed, mostly through industrial activities and large-scale agriculture like cattle-ranching, soy farms and irrigation projects.
Sixty percent of the Amazon lies within Brazil, which is where the most rapacious deforestation has taken place.
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