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Brazilian congress adopts controversial land use law

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Publication Date: 
April 26, 2012
News Source: 
The Guardian
Brazil's congress voted late on Wednesday to ease rules mandating the amount of forest farmers must keep on their land, delivering a long-sought victory to the country's powerful agriculture lobby and a political defeat for president Dilma Rousseff.
 

Though the bill will require millions of hectares of already cleared land to be replanted, environmentalists say it makes it too easy for farmers, responsible for much of the deforestation of the Amazon and other swaths of environmentally sensitive land in recent decades, to comply with regulations that stipulate how much forest they must preserve. 
 

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More news coverage on this topic
"Gilberto Carvalho says Dilma examine with 'serenity' ability to veto" (April 27, 2012) -- Instituto Carbono Brasil. (Portuguese)
Read "Gilberto Carvalho says Dilma examine with 'serenity' ability to veto" in English here (translated by Google)
"Brazil's Congress OKs weakened version of forest law; environmentalists outraged" (April 26, 2012) -- Mongabay.
"Revised Brazilian Forest Code good for environmental criminals, bad for forests" (April 26, 2012) -- WWF

 

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