Amazon Rainforest Development Controversy

Brazil is constructing a four-lane highway through a protected area in the state of Pará to prepare for the COP30 conference in November 2025, resulting in the deforestation of tens of thousands of hectares of rainforest. Environmental organizations have warned that the highway will fragment ecological corridors, exacerbating illegal logging and land encroachment. Despite the government’s claims that it has designed animal crossings and solar lighting, local residents and scientists have pointed out that this is a “paradoxical attempt to save the rainforest by destroying it.”