Large portion of Amazon rain forest could lose legal protection
(WorldNews Africa)

Deforestation of the Amazon rain forest might expand even further under a provision of Brazil`s law that could be invoked by landowners to expand agricultural production, according to a new study published in Nature Sustainability. Flavio Freitas, a researcher in KTH`s Department for Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Technology,says that while Brazil has favourable conditions for increasing production on land which is already used for agriculture (in particular lands where low-intensity animal grazing is practised), weaking of laws protecting nature could lead to agricultural growth being based more on increasing the...