SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil plans to deploy its armed forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon jungle, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said on Wednesday, in an effort protect the world’s largest rainforest where destruction has surged since last year.
Mourão said the country would invoke the same measure that deployed troops to fight forest fires last year, a so-called Guarantee of Law and Order (GLO) decree to be signed by President Jair Bolsonaro.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-to-deploy-troops-to-protect-amazon-as-deforestation-surges-idUSKBN22B2CC?
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