An Unequal Fight for the Amazon Rainforest?

There is slightly good news with an account of the activities of CEFU (the Experimental Active Forest Centre) that was set up in 2016 to culture native Amazon trees like the Cumaru (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/27/either-we-change-or-we-die-the-radical-farming-project-in-the-amazon). Without these trees, there is no future possibility of reconstituting the forest,which has been under multiple threats for years The forest is now being cut and burned at record rates, largely for grazing cattle or growing soya bean crops to feed to the cows. This is, however, a very unequal contest as it is much easier (and quicker) to destroy sections of the forest, than it is to get the trees to grow again. There is also much more financial support for clearance and many more people doing it (in many cases illegally). The current Brazilian government can hardly be described as supportive of either the rainforest or the indigenous people to live in it.