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Amid Brazil Forest Code controversy, will Presidential vetoes benefit forests?

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Publication Date: 
June 12, 2012
Author: 
JAN BÖRNER
News Source: 
CIFOR

 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (12.06.12)_Two weeks ago Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff vetoed critical elements of a proposal to reform the Brazilian Forest Code which had recently passed the Brazilian Congress. The changes are set to have implications for farms across the country and in particular the largest tracts of rainforest in the world, in the Amazon region.

First issued in 1965, the Forest Code regulates land use on private properties and has been the subject of heated debates between the agricultural lobby and environmentalists ever since. Now  changes in the so called “legal reserve” which requires farms in the Amazon to maintain 80% of their farms under forest cover are being proposed.
 
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