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Carrots and Sticks: Saving the Amazon and Stalling Climate Change

In Brazil they’re using carrots and sticks to prevent deforestation in the Amazon. Federal agents are stepping up law enforcement and farmers are experimenting with a new way to profit from a standing forest.

In an attempt to stall Amazon deforestation, the Brazilian government is stepping up law enforcement and ranchers are experimenting with a new method to profit from their forest. Living on Earth’s Bruce Gellerman and Bobby Bascomb travel with federal agents who are outgunned and outnumbered on a raid of an illegal ranch. They also meet a carbon cowboy who wants to harness greed to stop deforestation.