Rodrigo Zeidan, a Senior Research Scholar at CSB, has authored an article for Ecology and Evolution on the threat a new deforestation bill poses to biodiversity. 

A quote from the article: "The bill to abolish Legal Reserves, which we dub the Deforestation Bill, is a threat to biodiversity as it does not replace the legal reserve with any alternative mechanism; it simply allows farmers to exploit even more massively the lands of Brazil, and more worryingly, the threatened habitats at Amazonia and Cerrado."

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