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Deforestation has exploded in the Brazilian Amazon– having almost doubled in 2019. Illegal loggers & land grabbers have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset of the pandemic.

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Indigenous communities face the advance of the #COVID-19 in their villages with little help from the government. Without direct intervention by the Brazilian Army and the Federal Police to expel the invaders, a genocide of entire indigenous communities is underway. 2/13
In the first 3 months of 2020, Amazon deforestation was up 51% from a year ago to an area roughly the size of New York City. The Yanomami land, in Roraima state, is overrun by 30,000 illegal goldminers, according to the Hutukara Yanomami Association. #EndAmazonDeforestation 3/13
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