Brazilian Farmers Who Protect the Amazon Rainforest Would Like to Be Paid
SINOP, Brazil—Invaldo Weis acknowledges he is the variety of farmer some environmentalists really like to dislike: In the seventies, he carved out an 11,seven hundred-acre soy-and-cattle farm by clearing trees in the Amazon jungle.
But the sixty five-calendar year-aged Brazilian and thousands of farmers like him could also be vital allies for environmentalists in stopping even further destruction of the world’s most important tropical forest and enable gradual climbing world wide temperatures.
