| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/06/20, 10:16 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 2013 (IPS) - The bold strategy implemented by the Brazilian government has achieved an 84 percent reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the last eight years. But when the natural resources and pesticides used in agricultural production are taken into account, the environmental
progress made is not so impressive.
The achievement was announced this month by leftwing Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her environment
minister, Izabella Teixeira, in the tone of “mission almost accomplished,” Francisco Oliveira, the director of policies against deforestation in the environment ministry, told IPS.
Between August 2011 and July 2012, 4,571 square kilometres in the Amazon were deforested – the lowest annual rate since the Institute of Space Research (INPE) began satellite monitoring in 1988, and 27 percent
lower than in the previous 12-month period.
In 2004, when an inter-ministerial plan for prevention and control of deforestation, burning and illegal logging was established in the Amazon rainforest, the annual loss was 27,772 square kilometres.
Deforestation in 2012 represented an 84 percent drop since the plan’s
inception, Teixeira said.
Brazil’s Amazon region covers 5,033,072 square kilometres or 60 percent of the national territory, and the decline in deforestation is an essential contribution to progress towards the country’s target for
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for global warming.
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