On 25 September, state deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Rondonia, after less than an hour of discussion, abolished 11 protected areas, covering about 600,000 hectares (2,316 square miles), equivalent to about 3 percent of the total area of the state. The measure was pushed through in record time – the bill was presented to the Assembly in the morning and by the afternoon it was approved.
Even so, the move was not a bolt from the blue but stemmed from a fierce back-and-forth battle between the bancada ruralista agribusiness lobby in the Legislative Assembly on the one hand and the state government, backed by environmentalists, on the other – a struggle that has been raging for the last six months.
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/brazil-scraps-11-new-amazon-protected-areas-covering-2316-square-miles/
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