The Brazilian government has ordered the creation of two vast conservation areas in the Amazon, only days after an elderly American nun who tried to protect the region from soybean farmers and loggers was shot dead...The federal government is to open an office in the region to support conservation work following the failure of state authorities to stop violent attacks on peasants and environmentalists by commercial developers...The CPT [Catholic church's Pastoral Land Commission] branded the big farmers expanding logging, ranching and soybean projects deeper into the Amazon as "agrobandits" - employing slave labour, illegally exploiting natural resources and falsifying claims to public land.