Amazon Rainforest is cut to build the way for the Cop Climate Summit

A new four-lane highway cutting through thousands of acres protected Amazon Rainforest built for Cop30 Climate Summit in Belzilian City.

It aims to ease the city traffic, which hosts over 50,000 people – including world leaders – in the November Conference.

The State Government has been touting “lasting” “lasting” but some local and conservationists are angry with environmental impact.

Amazon has an important role in carbon absorbing for the world and giving biodiversity, and many say this digging in violation of a climate of climate.

With partially built road, the loose rainforest towers on either side – a reminder of what was before. The logs full of high ground fields with more than 13km (8 miles) through the rainforest to Belém.

Diggers and machines flow to the forest floor, which leads to wetland to surface on the road to be cut into a protected area.

Claudio Veraquete lives about 200m from where the road is. She used to make an income from harvesting açaí berries from the trees that used to occupy space.

“Everything was destroyed,” he said, turning clearing.

“Our harvest has been cut. We have no more income to support our family.”

He said he did not receive payment from the State Government and now depends on the storage.

She is worried about building this road to more dug in the future, now the place is easier to use for businesses.

“Our fear is one day someone comes here and say: ‘Here are some money. We need this place to build a gas station, or build a warehouse.’ And then we will leave.

“We were born and raised here in the community. Where do we go?”

Her community is not connected to the road, its walls are given on either side.

“For us living on the side of the highway, no benefits. There are benefits for trucks to pass through. If there is a sick, and we need to use the center of Belém, we no longer use it.”

The road has left two fields of protected forests. Scientists are concerned that it will break the ecosystem and destroy the wildlife movement.

Prof Silvia Sardinha is a wildlife vet and researcher in a university animal hospital looking at the new highway area.

He and his team rehabilitate wild animals with wounds, caused by people or vehicles.

When it was healing, they released them back to the wild – something he said more difficult if there was a highway at their door.

“From the time of digging food, there is a loss.

“We lose a place to release these animals back to wild, the natural environment of these species,” he said.

“The animals on the ground will never cross the other side, reducing places where they live and live.”

The President of Brazilian President and Brazilian Minister says it is a historic summary because it is “a police officer, not a copy about Amazon”.

The President said the meeting would give a chance to focus on Amazon’s needs, show the forest of the world, and offer what the federal government has done to protect it.

But Prof Sardinha said that as these conversations occur “at a high level, the business people and government officials”, those who live in Amazon “are not heard”.

The Government of the State of Pará pushes the idea of ​​this highway, known as Avenida Libeade, as early as 2012, but it was often set forth because of environmental concerns.

Today a herd of infrastructure projects has risen or approved by the city preparation for the cop summit.

Adler Silveira, the Secretary of State infrastructure, listing this road as one of the 30 projects that are happening in the city “prepare” and “the most important of people for the COP30 in the best possible way”.

Talking to the BBC, he said it was a “lasting highway” and a “important intervention of action”.

He added that there were passages of the wild animal for animals to pass, the lines of the bike and solar light. New hotels are also built and the port development of such cruise ships can turn out there to take care of excess visitors.

Brazil’s Federal Government invests more than $ 81m (£ 62m) to extend airport capacity from “seven to 14 million passengers”. A new 500,000 sq-m city park, parque da cidade, built. This will include green spaces, restaurants, a sports complex and other facilities for public use after.

Some business owners in the wide open-air market in the open-air-or-peso market agree that this progress will provide opportunity for the city.

“The town is generally improved, it heals and many people visit from other places. It means that I can sell more,” Dalci Cardosoa da Silva said.

He said it was necessary because when he was young, Belém “beautiful, well kept,” left “with” little interest from the ruling class “.

João Alexandre Trindade Da Silva, selling Herbery medicines on Amazon in the market, acknowledging that all work tasks can cause problems, but he feels the impending effect on it.

“We hope the discussions are not only on paper and become real actions.

That is the hope of world leaders who also choose to attend COP30 Summit.

It increases increases when thousands of them all over the world, and the infrastructure needed to host the cause.