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In the Amazon, a Catastrophic Gold Rush Looms
Chris Feliciano Arnold – The New York Times, 25 Sep 2017

18 Sep 2017 — Brazil’s interim president, Michel Temer, is willing to sacrifice millions of acres of rain forest in pursuit of a 16th-century boondoggle: fortunes of gold in the Amazon. In August, he signed a decree to open a rain forest reserve — an area larger than Denmark — to commercial mining, threatening decades of progress on environmental protection and indigenous rights in the Amazon.

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