The first tree came crashing down... swiftly followed by another. And another. As quickly as farmhands could fell them, machinery churned up the timber and bulldozers cleared the next swathe of land.
We are witnessing vandalism of a vital landscape on a huge scale and “justified” by demands from consumers for cheap food.
Thousands of acres of woodland in the Cerrado tropical savanna, in central Brazil, are being destroyed to make way for soybean plantations.
