A mining company set out to tame a small plot of Brazil’s wilderness. It struggles with the forces of nature and of the market

CARAJAS NATIONAL FOREST, PARA, Brazil — The Zoo-Botanical Park maintained by the mammoth Brazilian minerals company called Vale sits in the midst of the Carajas Forest Amazon reserve. Here, in cages, were some of the same animals that roam freely in the nearly 1,600 square miles of forest surrounding the zoo. A jaguar in a compound, […]








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