How the Amazon became a Wild West of land-grabbing

The Economist
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Published 2023-12-13
To save the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s President Lula must work out who owns it. But with 22 different agencies registering land claims–and many of them overlapping–it’s not an easy task.

00:00 - How is Amazonian land distributed?
00:27 - How do land claims conflict?
01:15 - How is Lula helping?

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All Comments (21)
  • @fernandoo.7566
    If Europe really cared about it, they would have made their own land in Amazon (in French Guiana) an example of preservation, but it's not the case. They even wanted to build one of the largest gold mine projects there (Montagne d'Or).
  • @bizantino
    The disregard for the environment is a serious problem here. A shame, just like it is in the USA and in almost every country in the world!
  • @zippyustar6350
    We need to pay people who live there to care for the green life instead of burning it to survive.
  • @Escocia803
    Brazilian people owns amazon not europeans or north americans!
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  • @CesarL
    Based on actions/sayings during the EU/Mercosur trade negotiations I think Macron thinks he owns the Amazon, and I suspect a large portion of Europeans agree with him.
  • @Sami-Nasr
    Forests can grow in the USA and Europe too, just plant the trees, or you can pay Brazil to produce oxygen for you