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From Greater Production Traceability to Combating Biodiversity Loss and Meeting UN Sustainable Development Goal 15

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According to Philip Fearnside, an ecologist at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA) in Brazil, “old deforestation motives continue, such as land speculation, money laundering and establishment of land tenure besides selling agriculture products for profit, meat production and soybean plantations”.