Brazil’s environmental agency approved oil drilling off the mouth of the Amazon River, even though oil company Petrobras considers it “unfeasible” to rescue large animals like manatees in the event of an oil spill.
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A rare hybrid population faces an oil frontier with a rescue plan that experts call insufficient.