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After Rainforest Victory for Brazil’s Environmentalists, a Mining Battle Looms

  • Brazil ministry wants to open border regions to foreign miners
  • Amazon-basin area about the size of Alaska could be affected
Gisele Bundchen speaks at an awards ceremony on May 9, 2017, in New York City.

Gisele Bundchen speaks at an awards ceremony on May 9, 2017, in New York City.

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Opponents of unbridled development of Brazil’s Amazon region scored a victory this week when environmentalists fronted by supermodel Gisele Bundchen persuaded President Michel Temer to veto legislation that would have removed protections on more than 1 million acres.

A battle over Amazon land about 300 times that size may be looming.