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Manaus - Greenpeace Brazil has taken pictures of illegal fires that wreaked havoc in the Amazon between July 29th and 31st during an overpass. The images were taken when the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE) recorded 2020 km² of deforestation from August 2021 to July 8,712, the second highest rate of deforestation of the entire year recorded by the DETER-B warning system.
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“After Bolsonaro and the Brazilian Congress lifted environmental regulations, they are now proactively trying to reward illegal logging and land theft. By improperly applying emergency laws, they are sneaking through new radical bills that bring more destruction and exacerbate the climate emergency, ”said Cristiane Mazzetti, Senior Forest Campaigner, Greenpeace Brazil.
Despite Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's recent pledges to tackle illegal logging, he and his allies are putting forward a number of radical bills that would allow more deforestation and undermine indigenous peoples' land rights. On August 3, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies passed a radical law, PL2633, which would legitimize land grabbing on public land. Land grabbing on public land is associated with a third of all deforestation in the Amazon in Brazil. Experts predict that these proposals could “break” the Amazon as the rainforest can only sustain a limited number of forest losses before it fails as an ecosystem.
“Few would have expected this government to deliver on its insincere promise to reduce deforestation by 10%. Officials continue to weaken environmental agencies and use the military for the third year in a row to investigate environmental crimes, a strategy that has proven ineffective, ”Mazzetti continued. They will accelerate the collapse of the Amazon and destroy parts of the rainforest that are critical to preventing the worst scenarios of climate and biodiversity emergencies. "
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