The winner of the election will likely play a major role in deciding the fate of the Amazon rainforest.

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has experienced sharply increasing levels of illegal deforestation and mining, violence against environmental activists and Indigenous people and a loosening of environmental enforcement under the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro.The future of the rainforest became a pressing issue as Brazilians headed to the polls in Sunday's presidential runoff.

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