New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

2022-08-09 14:07
Lawmakers in Brazil have approved a bill that allows extensive ranching and tourism in protected areas of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland. The move by the legislature in Mato Grosso state comes just days after the state’s governor, Mauro Mendes, vetoed a law that would have banned small hydroelectric power plants along the […]