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AP finds Brazil's plan to protect Amazon has opposite effect

by Associated Press
| August 27, 2020 9:27 PM

NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil (AP) — In May, facing urgent international demands for action after a string of massive wildfires in the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro put the army in charge of protecting the rainforest.

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