As the Amazon faces its greatest threat yet, Canada can reject free trade deal with Brazil

This is about survival: scientists warn that the Amazon is approaching a tipping point beyond, which the rainforest cannot sustain itself. If that happens, there would be a massive die-off of plant and animal species.

Greenpeace Canada, in conjunction with other activists and associations, launched a House of Commons petition calling on Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne to reject a free trade deal with Brazil.Photograph courtesy of Greenpeace Canada

Opinion

November 19, 2020

The Amazon rainforest is facing its greatest threat yet. This vast haven for biodiversity and carbon storage, homeland to hundreds of Indigenous peoples, is being decimated as loggers, ranchers, and land-grabbers linked to big business move in to exploit the territory...

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