Prominent party members of Brazil's governing Workers' Party have asked President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to veto legislation passed by both houses of parliament.
The legislation would grant large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to Brazilian farmers who seized the land illegally. The land in question is larger than France.
Opponents of the legislation say it would reward the illegal occupation and destruction of the rain forest. Last year 12,000 square kilometres of rain forest were deforested by local cattle farms.


















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