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Critical Moment for the EU Anti-Deforestation Law

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par Human Rights Watch

Worldwide, large-scale monocrop agriculture is the most significant driver of deforestation. Bulldozers flatten natural landscapes, wiping out wildlife and destroying the forest resources that support millions of people’s livelihoods. Cattle ranches, expansive plantations of oil palm, and soybean farms take over where rainforest used to reign.Efforts to slow deforestation for commercial agriculture have usually been voluntary and have mostly failed. This is why the European Union’s Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) is a necessary departure from the obsolete voluntary…

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