Analysis: Brazil brings big green plans to COP26. But its track record is dismal
But can the administration of current One of the programs named According to Brazilian land-use mapping project Milton da Costa, who works at the Rioterra organization coordinating large scale projects of land restoration and reforestation inside Conservation Units, was ambushed by two armed men in mid September this year and received death threats for trying to implement a reforestation project near the city of Machadinho d’Oeste.”I looked at him and saw that he was also carrying a gun, probably a 38 (pistol). The other guy was telling him: shoot him, shoot him right away. Then he just said, ‘No, we simply came here to deliver him a message, if he doesn’t stop planting these trees there, then we’ll come back’,” da Costa recounts.CNN’s Philip Wang in Atlanta and Camilo Rocha in Sao Paulo contributed to this report.