Land grabbing, fires, and deforestation are surging ahead of plans to pave the middle section of the BR-319 highway in the Amazon. Threats to forest communities increase as the road cuts through protected forest and Indigenous lands. www.regnskog.no/en/long-read...
An intense scramble to sell and illegally acquire land is eroding the Amazon rainforest ahead of the paving of the BR-319 highway between the Brazilian cities of Manaus and Porto Velho.
