Published: January 02, 2019
- Environmental regulation transferred to agriculture ministry
- Indigenous leaders say move threatens their reserves
Hours after taking office, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched an assault on environmental and Amazon protections with an executive order transferring the regulation and creation of new indigenous reserves to the agriculture ministry – which is controlled by the powerful agribusiness lobby.
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