Brazil anti-deforestation agents protest working conditions under Lula

More than 1,500 workers at Brazil's federal anti-deforestation agencies are demanding better pay and working conditions from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, according to a letter they have signed which was reviewed by Reuters on Wednesday. The workers were tasked with executing Lula's tougher stance on deforestation, a key plank of his campaign to reestablish Brazil as a leader on climate change, through issuing fines for environmental infractions among other means. Deforestation rates in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have plummeted 50% in the first 10 months of Lula's presidency, but the workers say they remain underpaid and overworked while Lula touts their success at the U.N. COP28 climate summit in Dubai.