Deforestation

In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted, the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase military action to curb environmental crimes…

“Until 1979 and even 1980, the pages of El Mercurio called for public auctions of huge plots of land, almost all of which were suitable for forestry. The generalised economic crisis of those years meant that only a handful of…