the Amazon faces a dire crisis more than 1 fth of Brazil’s rainforest has already vanished the area is also home to more than 28 million Brazilians that is the case of marel a state where the Amazon forest almost disappeared and almost 58% of the population here lives below the poverty line This poverty fuels deforestation top of the culprits are loggers cattle ranchers and Commercial soybean farmers under former president bolsonaro Brazil joined more than 140 countries in a global pact to end deforestation by 2030 but his administration GED government agencies responsible for protecting the world’s largest rainforest which allowed illegal activities to flourish Brazil’s government is rethinking its strategy to protect the Amazon ring Forest to better fight a social crisis the forestation has load under President Lula with international support the Amazon fund hopes to break the cycle of poverty it holds more than $700 million and is at the Forefront of Brazil’s efforts to promote sustainable microeconomist the scale of the fund and the efforts of President Lula’s Administration are still no match for the size of the problems in the Amazon Specialists say but rethinking this strategy to protect the rainforest is a start