Aerial view of deforestation in the Western Amazon region of Brazil on September 22, 2017. Parts of the Western Amazon rainforest have suffered some of the heaviest deforestion in the Amazon as a whole, with figures puting it at a third higher than last year. Illegal logging has been hard to police in a country in economic crisis. / AFP PHOTO / CARL DE SOUZA / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by PAULA RAMON (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)
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