The Amazon region is home to half of the world’s remaining tropical forests. Indigenous territories make up more than a fifth of its land.
Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office this year and has pledged to reverse environmental destruction under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
But Brazilian government figures released this year show deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached a record high in February.
Under Bolsonaro, average annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased by 75 percent over the past decade.
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