The dissolution of the Renca reserve – which spans 46,000 sq km on the border of the Amapa and Para states – was described by one opposition senator Randolfe Rodrigues of the Sustainability Network party, as the “biggest attack on the Amazon of the last 50 years”. The only pause in this policy came earlier this year when Temer vetoed a bill that would have opened up swathes of forest to development. At the time, the president said he was responding to an appeal on Twitter by the supermodel, Gisele Bündchen. But Temer has since approved several similar measures, including the latest one this week, which prompted an angry response from Bündchen. We can’t destroy our protected areas for private interests,” she tweeted.

Source: The Guardian August 24, 2017 16:25 UTC