Amazon land battles + more

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Regulation is just one front.

Brazil’s government has formally recognised six Indigenous reservations—some 800 square miles of land, mostly in the Amazon. They are the first reservations to be recognised since 2016, fulfilling a campaign promise by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The move reverses the pro-development policy of Lula’s predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, who famously refused to grant “one more inch” of land to Indigenous peoples.