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It aims to buy previously deforested land and cover them with trees to suck up greenhouse gases and profit from carbon credits and timber.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

The fast-food chain became a champion of the moratorium, whose signatories pledged not to buy soya grown on land deforested after 2008.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

In this, globally operating trading companies agreed to no longer purchase soy grown in freshly deforested areas.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024

In Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, the first cases in the current outbreak were detected near recently deforested areas.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 4, 2024

Broad valleys were completely deforested and dotted with villages, and drained and fenced fields for intensive food production covered entire valley floors.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond