Bills before Brazil Congress slammed for rewarding Amazon land grabbers by Fernanda Wenzel on 15 April 2021 Two bills, one each in the upper and lower houses of Congress, would grant invaders of public forests with land titles, instead of punishing them and returning the land to the state. The proposals also increase the area of properties eligible for regularization without an on-site inspection, and risk exacerbating land conflicts in Brazil. Both bills were born from an executive order from President Jair Bolsonaro that expired in May last year. The backers of the bills say they would facilitate the regularization of the lands of small farmers, but environmental and land issues experts say the main beneficiaries will be land grabbers and large farmers.