Amazon Deforestation

Living on Earth

Shortly after environmental activist Dorothy Stang was murdered in Brazil, the country’s president Lula da Silva pledged to step up law enforcement to stop the violence. He has also agreed to create two large reserves in the area where the 74-year-old nun lived and worked. Host Steve Curwood talks to Outside Magazine contributing editor Patrick Symmes about Stang and the future of the Brazilian Amazon.

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