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Logs are stacked at a lumber mill surrounded by recently charred and deforested fields near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, September 2019
AFTER four years of increasing destruction in Brazil’s Amazon region, deforestation has declined by 33.6 per cent in the six months since President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva took power, according to government satellite data.
From January to June, the rainforest had alerts for possible deforestation covering 1,023 square miles, down from around 2,500 square miles during the same period last year under former president Jair Bolsonaro.
This year’s data, released on Thursday, includes a 41 per cent plunge in alerts for June, which marks the start of the dry season when deforestation tends to jump.
Money makers already exploit cleaning and catering contracts while the military-industrial complex diverts billions from health to warfare — but Bevan’s vision will endure as long as people fight for it, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE looks at the gradual demise of US’s nefarious influence around the world and the complexity of impending freedom
