Brazil Enacts Law for Access to More Rainforest Destruction
The deforestation rate in Brazil has taken on a whole new sense of emergency. The Brazilian Parliament has just adopted a provision into law providing for an increase in the area of the Amazon that may be granted for rural use with no need to call for bids. The limit, previously set at 500 hectares, has been increased to 1,500 hectares, allowing deforestation of up to 20 percent of the area granted. This law will allow an increase of soybean plantations and cattle ranches in their need to exploit more land for destruction. Recently, a report by the National Space Research Institute showed that the Brazilian Amazon lost 1,096 square kilometers of forests during May.
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