Brazil lifts ban on sugarcane farming in Amazon
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has lifted a ban on sugarcane farming in the country's Amazon and Pantanal tropical wetlands, which environmentalists say threatens the ecologically vulnerable region. - EPA pic, November 7, 2019.
BRAZILIAN President Jair Bolsonaro cancelled a ban on sugarcane farming in the country’s Amazon and Pantanal tropical wetlands yesterday, a move that environmentalists say threatens the ecologically vulnerable regions. The ban on the crop, which Brazil uses to make ethanol, had been put in place under a 2009 decree, which Bolsonaro and his economic and agriculture ministers overturned.
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