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Since the election of President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, Brazil’s environmental policies have been in the international spotlight, as he made clear his intent to open up the Amazon rainforest for commerce and end territorial protections for indigenous communities.Between August 2019 and July 2020, deforestation in the Amazon hit a 12-year high, rising 9.5 percent from the previous season, according to INPE, the country’s space research agency.Yet on December 27, 2020, Vice President Hamilton Mourao, who is the president of the National Council for the Legal Amazon, boasted in an op-ed for the newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo about the administration’s achievements on the preservation
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