Special Report - Social unrest in Latin America III - Land (ISSN 17414474)

Apart from land invasions by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Brazil has become a byword for deforestation on a grand scale. The scale is shrinking, and may yet shrink more with the passage of a controversial new forest law, which is good news for indigenous communities (or at least some of them) for whom land, their land, and forests are synonymous. Farmers and other encroachers will be kept busy replanting the trees they have been cutting down above their legal quota. Environmentalists will have motive to celebrate that reforestation is spreading apace, both in Brazil and elsewhere in the region.

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