By Fernanda Wenzel A deal signed on Aug. 12 has ended an eight-month-long strike by environmental agents in Brazil, but doesn’t resolve their long-standing grievances over pay and work conditions. “The agreement was made against the will of the civil servants,” ASCEMA, the association representing the agents,wrote in a public statement. “The servants were obliged to accept the proposal in order not to suffer even greater damage,” it added. Employees of IBAMA, the federal environmental agency; ICMBio, which manages national protected areas; and the Brazilian Forest Service, which oversees fores…