Brazil prosecutors again seek to suspend Canadian potash mine in the Amazon

Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed a lawsuit to suspend a license given to a Canadian firm to install what would be Latin America's largest fertilizer mine in the Amazon rainforest, their office said.

The planned mine by Brazil Potash overlaps with ancestral lands of the Mura Indigenous people whose territory is in the process of demarcation, the prosecutors said in a statement issued on Tuesday. They added the licensing must be a federal issue to be decided by Brazil's environmental protection agency Ibama and not the state environmental body Ipaam.