17 minutes that'll make you furious at everyone in power.
The battle against deforestation in President Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil is also a fight against criminal networks and corruption, drawing in politicians, militias and drugs gangs. The FT follows the fight as it cycles from the cities to the rainforest, and meets the indigenous people trying to save their land
Direction
Joe Sinclair compresses years of damage into 17 breathless minutes.
Production
Access to militia territory most journalists wouldn't survive.
Director
Joe Sinclair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Bolsonaro's first year, when international attention briefly focused on Amazon fires — this captures the window before the world looked away again.
The 'ruralistas' political bloc mentioned briefly controls Congress and wrote most environmental law — Sinclair couldn't fit their full grip in 17 minutes.
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