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Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon's top land grabbers

Thursday 30 Jan 25 11:30am

Photo by Nareeta Martin on Unsplash

Professional land grabbers operating in the Brazilian Amazon have sophisticated strategies to steal and deforest public lands and get away with it.

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