Amazon rainforest bulldozed for COP30 highway in Belém, Brazil, as planners clear 13km of protected land for 50,000 world leaders. Locals like Claudio Verequete mourn lost açaí trees—'Everything was destroyed.' Conservationists call the move shockingly ironic.

This new four-lane COP30 road slices through Amazon wetlands, disconnecting protected habitats and leaving locals cut off. Wildlife vet Silvia Sardinha warns, 'From the moment of deforestation, there is a loss.' Sloths may now dodge trucks instead of tree branches.

Two once-connected forest areas now severed—sloths and jaguars must cross four lanes of traffic to reach former habitats.