“They would come in before dawn. By the time you noticed, the damage was already done. When we got there, they’d stop. We’d call the police, and when they [the officers] came, they’d still side with them [the tractor operators], who had the paperwork,” says Edvaldo Dutra, a resident of the Veredão settlement, recalling the episodes of forest destruction that tore through bacuri groves — a native…

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