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Pending bill could devastate Brazil’s Serra do Divisor National Park

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To the Editor — Brazil is facing an environmental crisis, with alarmingly high Amazonian deforestation1 compounded by Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s efforts to dismantle many of the country’s environmental safeguards. Now, a pending congressional bill in Brazil (number 6024/2019) could threaten one of the most untouched regions of the Amazon rainforest2, by downgrading the conservation status of the renowned Serra do Divisor National Park in western Amazonia.

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Fig. 1: Serra do Divisor National Park in Brazilian Amazonia.

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  1. Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Technology, Federal Technological University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

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  2. Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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Ruaro, R., Laurance, W.F. Pending bill could devastate Brazil’s Serra do Divisor National Park. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 120–121 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01632-8

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