Brazil is about to host a two-day summit about tackling the enormous challenge which ultimately affects all life on earth – how to protect the Amazon rainforest to help stop climate change.
Latest scientific data shows a major reduction in the amount of trees being felled.
But President Lula da Silva faces a huge challenge to meet his goal of zero deforestation by 2030.

Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from the Amazonian state of Para, Brazil.

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