Brasilia, 6 Dec (EFE).-the environmental group Greenpeace protested today in Brasilia the imminent adoption of a new set of laws to regulate the use of soils and demanded the head of State, Dilma Rousseff, to turn “off the chainsaw”.
The draft reform of the so-called forestry code, opposed by defenders of the environment, will be voted on today same in the Senate and it seems clear that it will be adopted by the overwhelming majority that has the ruling party in this House.
“This reform will lead to increased deforestation in the Amazon, forgive to those who felled forests illegally and open gaps for new settlements” in greater plant lungs of the planet, denounced the agronomic engineer Tatiana de Carvalho, Brazilian chapter of Greenpeace.
Environmental group inflated huge balloons outside the headquarters of the Senate in which hung banners which read “Dilma, shutdown the chainsaw” and other messages to the senators, who were urged to reject the draft, which was submitted by the Government itself.
According to Greenpeace and other ecological movements, as Global Fund Fund for nature (WWF), the adoption of the draft reform of the forestry code will be “a mortal blow” to the Amazon and reverse the progress Brazil has experienced in recent years in terms of reduction of the rates of deforestation.
Just this Monday, the Brazilian Government announced that rates of loss of Amazon forests by the predatory man action shrank 11 percent between August 2010 and July 2011, were lost when 6.238 square kilometres of forest.
According to official data, that figure was also the youngest recorded during the annual period since 1988, when they started to collect statistical data on the loss of Amazonian forests. EFE
