Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China
via news.mongabay.com
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The BR-364 federal highway triggered one of the largest deforestation drives in the history of the Brazilian Amazon. Built in the early 1960s through the rainforest, it links Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso state, to Porto Velho, capital of Rondônia state, and was the first overland route to Brazil’s westernmost region, ending its long-standing geographic […]