Tree Huggers

The latest route follows existing highways in southern Acre, avoiding Indigenous territories and more intact forests.

“Railways cause less impacts than highways. And from the little we know so far, it will not go through any Indigenous territories,” Ivaneide Bandeira, coordinator of the Kanindé Association, a nonprofit organization in Rondônia state, told Mongabay in an audio message. But construction and resulting agricultural expansion may cause negative impacts, she added.