myeviltwin

At certain levels of deforestation the Amazon rainforest ecosystem is believed to break down, turn into savannah:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaat2340

Other countries should indeed have put in financial effort to make sure this ecosystem is preserved. It might be too late now.

you may be right, but my history as dictator has shown me to be too soft so far

well, even writing software for domains like healthcare does not seem that meaningful any more with the ecological collapse rolling out around us. I'm probably fooling myself with the idea that I need to earn some more money to put it into conservation efforts...

Unfortunately you cannot re-introduce those that are extinct, or doomed because of the gene pool already diminished. A complex ecosystem needs long time to develop.