To Save the Amazon, Brazil Is Betting You Can’t Just Save the Trees
To Save the Amazon, Brazil Is Betting You Can’t Just Save the Trees  
Podcast: Big Take
Published On: Thu Oct 24 2024
Description: Decades-long efforts to save Brazil’s Amazon have hit a brutal reality. Impoverished local communities often turn to agribusiness and other industries that drive deforestation.  On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s Brazil bureau chief Vanessa Dezem joins host Sarah Holder to talk through the link between poverty and deforestation and the country’s new efforts to save its rainforest by building up local economies. Read more: The Amazon’s Relentless Poverty CycleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.