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, a transfer environmentalists criticized as one other assault on the nation’s delicate ecosystems.
The federal government mentioned the resolution, signed by President Jair Bolsonaro and the ministries of economic system and agriculture, was taken as a result of the 2009 decree was out of date and different regulatory devices, akin to the brand new forest legislation and the RenovaBio program, had been extra environment friendly for any such oversight.
Though areas beneath sugarcane cultivation are being decreased in Brazil, inexperienced teams fear that the crop might ultimately be planted in lately cleared areas within the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest.
Environmentalists mentioned the choice was one other step by the Bolsonaro authorities to scale back protections for the Amazon, whose preservation is taken into account vital to manage emissions of greenhouse gases.
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