Brazil proposes shrinking national forest after highway protests

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government has sent Congress a bill to shrink the boundaries of a national forest in the Amazonian state of Pará, according a statement from the Environment Ministry on Friday, a move environmentalists said would speed deforestation of the area.

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