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Brazil revisits forest code

Nature volume 476, pages 259–260 (2011)Cite this article

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Changes to legislation could undermine authorities' power to halt deforestation.

A tough-minded law has boosted Brazil's environmental record in recent years by helping to drive the rate of destruction in the Amazon rainforest to historic lows. But a backlash in the hinterlands is threatening to weaken the country's forest code and push deforestation rates back up again.

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Tollefson, J. Brazil revisits forest code. Nature 476, 259–260 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476259a

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