While the world is under the spell of the Covid-19 outbreak, deforestation in the Amazon forest is once again returning to dramatic proportions. The Brazilian government, under Bolsonaro, wants to use the corona crisis to relax legislation to protect the forest.
Bureau Buitenland talks to criminologist and Amazon expert Tim Boekhout van Solinge and Hilde Stroot, Biodiversity Greenpeace program director, about the worrying developments.