How China’s Evolving Consumer Habits May Protect the Amazon Rainforest

File image of a shopper in the meat section of a supermarket in Kunming city, south-west China's Yunnan province. Photo by SHENG XIEXIAO / IMAGINECHINA VIA AFP

By Manuela Andreoni

When Xing Yanling posted on WeChat about her April visit to the Brazilian Amazon, she described to her friends in China the unforgettable sensation of being “enveloped by tens of thousands of shades of green.”

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