"The efforts of Lula’s government to combat illegal logging have cut deforestation in the Amazon by half. A raft of vengeful new bills from Brazil’s formidable agribusiness lobby would dismantle this successful crackdown."
"The sheer scale of the agri-lobby’s legal blitzkrieg can be glimpsed in the laws on offer. These include proposals to slash half a million hectares from the Jamanxim ecological reserve in the Amazon; grant the Ministry of Agriculture control over which animals make the endangered species list; strip protections from 40 percent of forested areas in the state of Pará and from non-forested areas of native vegetation across the country; restrict the government’s ability to monitor criminal risks in rural financing; and, most significantly, to neuter Brazil’s environmental monitoring agency, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), by hampering its ability to combat illegal deforestation using satellite imagery."
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https://jacobin.com/2026/06/brazil-agribusiness-lobby-lula-bolsonaro