Brazil's government on Wednesday announced that it will invest $75 million (about €65 million) in the BR-319 highway that cuts through the center of the Amazon forest. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration simultaneously announced an environmental protection plan to safeguard the forest from the potential impacts of the highway. Environmentalists argue that a lot of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest takes place along roadsides because they're easier to access and advocate