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Large-scale tropical deforestation driven mostly by illegal land clearing for agriculture and mining

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Across tropical forest nations, most clearing is illegal and tied to cattle, soy/palm, land-grabbing, and mining. It is profitable, remote, hard to police, and weakly enforced when political will lapses — progress is real but reversible.

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#00035 Near-real-time satellite alerts feeding a funded, empowered environmental enforcement body
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#00040 Legal Amazon, BrazilSuccess
#00036 Cut off the money: supply-chain zero-deforestation agreements, conditional credit, and municipal blacklisting
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#00037 Whole-of-government coordination plan (PPCDAm) backed by a performance-based international fund (Amazon Fund)
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#00041 Brazil (national; Amazon biome)Success
#00038 Cattle ranching as the dominant deforestation driver, and the cattle-laundering loophole
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#00039 Leakage: protecting one biome or commodity displaces clearing to less-protected savannas and dry forests
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#00040 Forest degradation and fire as under-counted drivers of loss, amplified by drought and climate feedback
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#00041 The livelihood gap: enforcement without economic alternatives for miners, smallholders and forest communities
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#00042 Political reversibility: how to make forest-protection institutions and funding survive a change of government
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