8º de 10 irmãos da família de ciganos caçada por assassinato de PMs é morto pela polícia correio24horas.com.br - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from correio24horas.com.br Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)
In this commentary, Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler says a new investigation by Mongabay-Brasil casts doubt on the Brazilian palm oil industry’s promise to usher in a new era of sustainable palm oil in the Amazon.
“In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, the Brazilian palm oil industry told us that oil palm plantation expansion would take a different path than in Southeast Asia,” he writes. “We were told that by limiting oil palm plantations to low-yielding cattle pasture that was long ago carved out of the region’s forests, palm oil could increase carbon storage, create more economic activity and employment, and help restore ecosystem services all without deforestation.”
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Facebook Enabling Amazon Land Grabbing, Deforestation, Finds Investigation
BBC Brasil penetrated deep within criminal networks illegally selling and deforesting conserved lands even within an Indigenous reserve. In a new twist, some land grabbers are posting the plots they’re selling on Facebook.
BySue Branford and Thais Borges
Published on 3/4/2021 at 1:55 PM
In a powerful new documentary broadcast on 26 February, entitled Selling the Amazon, BBC Brasil went undercover to show how illegal land grabbers are moving in on public land in the Brazilian Amazon, including within protected areas clearing rainforest and selling plots to ranchers at highly inflated prices. In a modern twist that is attracting international attention, the documentary showed plots of public land being openly advertised on Facebook.
Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report
A new report documents draconian budget cuts to Brazilian environmental monitoring and firefighting of 9.8% in 2020, and 27.4% in 2021 reductions, analysts say that were inflicted by the Bolsonaro administration in “a clear policy for dismantling national environmental policies.”
Brazil’s environmental agencies under Bolsonaro have also been subjected to nearly 600 administrative and rules changes, invoked by presidential executive order and resulting in massive environmental deregulation.
Under Bolsonaro, deforestation has soared, with an increase of 34% in the last two years, even as capacity to punish environmental criminals fell sharply due to funding shortages. Fines imposed for illegal deforestation, instead of rising during this Amazon environmental crime wave, fell by 42% from 2019 to 2020.