In October 2008, Brazil’s environmental protection agency Ibama issued a notice of violation against business owner Delci Potrich, after he illegally burned 1,180 hectares of native forest on the Sabiá and Jatobá farms, in the Amazonian region of the Center-West state of Mato Grosso.
That year, for a series of violations, Mr. Potrich featured on the Environment Ministry’s list of the 100 biggest Amazon deforesters. That said, according to a report from U.S. NGO Mighty Earth, the government did nothing to stop the Potrich family — originally from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul — from selling soybeans…