New Amazon Reserves Anger Brazilians

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NPR’s David Welna reports on Brazilian President Fernando Collor’s plan to set aside millions of acres of land as protected reserves for several of the country’s native tribes. Environmentalists and Native-rights advocates abroad are pleased, but many Brazilians are furious.

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