Brazil abolishes huge Amazon reserve in 'biggest attack' in 50 years

Brazilian president has dissolved Renca to attract investment in region thought to contain gold, with critics warning of irreversible damageThe Brazilian president Michel Temer has abolished an Amazonian reserve the size of Denmark, prompting concerns of an influx of mineral companies, road-builders and workers into the species-rich forest.The dissolution of the Renca reserve - which spans 46,000 sq km on the border of the Amapa and Para states - was described by one opposition senator Randolfe Rodrigues of the Sustainability Network party, as the "biggest attack on the Amazon of the last 50 years". Continue reading...