Brazil has waged a successful war on tropical deforestation, and other countries are trying to follow its lead. But victory remains fragile.
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Tollefson, J. Stopping deforestation: Battle for the Amazon. Nature 520, 20–23 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/520020a
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