By Marcelo Teixeira
By Marcelo Teixeira
SAO PAULO, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Brazil has canceled a 10-year-old ban on sugarcane cultivation in its Amazon rainforest and central wetlands, the federal government gazette mentioned on Wednesday, which environmentalists criticized as one other assault on the nation’s delicate ecosystems.
The federal government didn’t clarify its determination, which was signed by President Jair Bolsonaro and the ministries of Financial system and Agriculture.
Though areas below sugarcane cultivation are at the moment being diminished in Brazil, inexperienced teams fear that the crop might finally be planted in just lately cleared areas within the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, or elements of the Cerrado areas.
Environmentalists mentioned the choice to reverse the 2009 decree was one other step by the Bolsonaro authorities to cut back protections for the Amazon, whose preservation is taken into account necessary to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases.
Ending the prohibition will…