Brazil and the USA have agreed to work together and promote development in the Amazon.
The decision was made in a meeting between diplomats of the two countries on Friday.
The private-sector developments have been supplemented by a biodiversity conservation fund for the Amazon.
Brazil's foreign minister Ernesto Araujo claimed that opening the rainforest to economic development is the only way to protect it.
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Trump again warns Iran to open Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States was in talks with a "more reasonable regime" to end the war in Iran but repeated his warning to Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz or risk US attacks on its oil wells and power plants.
Israeli fire kills four in Gaza and the West Bank, medics say
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Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, El Pais says
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UN peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon after projectile explosion
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