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By Fernanda Wenzel “There won’t be anything left here,” Maria Márcia told Mongabay through text message while observing fire advancing a few meters away from her house. Márcia lives in PDS Terra Nossa, a land reform settlement in the southwest of Pará state, in the Brazilian Amazon, where land-grabbers are burning vegetation for the fourth year in a row. Designed as a sustainable settlement where dwellers once could live from small plots of farmlands collecting fruits and nuts, PDS Terra Nossa is now mostly covered bypasture and soy. “They’ve burned everyone’s crops. How are we going to live? …

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