Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

A Portuguese language version of this report is published on Mongabay Brasil TOMÉ-AÇU, Brazil — Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous Reserve, a “green island” encircled by oil palm plantations in the Brazilian Amazon. Uniform rows of oil palms cover huge swaths of land here in the northeast … Continue reading Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon