New at Mongabay today: "Jair Bolsonaro [has] promised that, if elected, he would shut down Brazil’s environmental ministry, relax environmental law enforcement and licensing, open indigenous reserves to mining, and back out of the Paris climate accord...international NGOs, such as Greenpeace and WWF, would be banned from the country. The damage these policies could do is extreme."
A study by the Mongabay commentary’s authors estimates that Brazilian deforestation and carbon emissions under Bolsonaro’s policies would cause unprecedented Amazon forest loss, and contribute to destabilizing the global climate. The scientists' full analysis here: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/5-bird-species-lose-protections-more-at-risk-in-new-indonesia-decree/ Erik -- www.erikhoffner.com
