Right-wing leaders could rule 95% of the Amazon by 2027, experts warn

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Analysts warn that by January 2027, five of nine Amazonian countries could be governed by right-wing or far-right parties favoring agribusiness and mining over conservation, with Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Ecuador already there. Brazil, home to over 60% of the rainforest, holds a tight October race between incumbent Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the coup-convicted former president.

Bolivia's new government has already eliminated its Ministry of Environment, folding it into a productive-development ministry, while Ecuador's re-elected president is reopening mining and downgrading environmental agencies. Meanwhile Venezuela faces pressure from President Trump to boost oil production and mining deals, and deforestation data shows 2025 brought a 10-year low in forest loss under Lula, a gain experts say could reverse quickly under a less committed government.

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You can spend years replanting a hillside and lose it in one bad vote, and that is roughly the math on offer here. A ministry of environment got folded into a rural-development office like it was a spare bedroom nobody needed anymore. Whatever happens in Brazil in October, the rest of the map is already leaning one direction, and it's not toward the trees.

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