Much of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest is safeguarded behind a green shield of publicly protected land.
In recent years, companies have launched preservation projects in search of a lucrative commodity known as carbon credits. But a Washington Post investigation found that most of the projects - which have generated tens of millions of dollars - overlapped with public lands.
The Amazon rainforest, because of its size and global environmental importance, has increasingly drawn those pursuing carbon credits. Here, these people are called 'carbon cowboys.'
They've launched preservation projects across the region, generating carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Those credits, in turn, have been purchased by some of the world's largest corporations.
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