Renan Santos: This plague came from Argentina and Uruguay, spread across the Brazilian countryside, destroys crops, eliminates local animals, attacks Brazilian fauna and biodiversity, and is already causing multimillion—and soon billion—dollar losses to Brazilian producers.
Renan Santos: Eliminating the javaporco is an environmental issue, an economic issue and also a public health issue.
And the federal government has to put hunters in place to eliminate the plague.
Renan Santos: I would love for us to have more jaguars working in this fight.
Renan Santos: And I find it very funny that these urban people don't talk about the killing of jaguars by hunters, yet they are worried precisely about a plague.