An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed.
Highlights
- Strong global demand for agricultural commodities is fuelling some of these illegal clearances.
- Another is the expectation that a new law will soon be passed in Brazil to legitimise and forgive land grabbing.
- New law is expected to be passed soon in the hope of legitimising and forgiving land grabbing in Brazil.
- An area of trees more than seven times the size of Manhattan, New York was destroyed in one of the worst clearances in Brazil’s history in 60 years by clearinghouses.