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policies prompted soaring deforestation and a [gold rush](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/like-a-bomb-going-off-why-brazils-largest-reserve-is-facing-destruction-aoe) into Indigenous lands. Activists fear such rampant destruction may return if another Bolsonaro wins power. Others fret over the future of South America
policies and law enforcement in helping to slow deforestation. Excluding losses driven by fires, an estimated 5,700 sq km (2,200 sq miles) of old-growth tropical forests disappeared in Brazil last year