The Economist | How the Amazon became a Wild West of land-grabbing @TheEconomist | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
To save the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s President Lula must work out who owns it. But with 22 different agencies registering land claims–and many of them overlapping–it’s not an easy task.

00:00 - How is Amazonian land distributed?
00:27 - How do land claims conflict?
01:15 - How is Lula helping?

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