The government of President Dilma Rousseff has been taken by surprise after the finding, through satellites, which in recent months, the Amazon has been an increase in deforestation by 27% compared to the same period last year, mainly because in the past two years had broken the upward trend of destruction that had been observed for many years.
The deforestation of the jungle in the last nine months has been of 1,848 square kilometers. Both environmentalists and members of the Government believe that this surprising increase may be due to the possible adoption in the coming days the new Forest Code, which takes years and stumbling in the controversy between environmentalists and landowners.
The new code provides, in effect, a broad amnesty for those who, years ago, had destroyed part of the global sanctuary and nature reserve on the planet, to market its precious wood, open roads for soybean planting or grazing for cattle. The truth is that the government has responded immediately, concerned not only because of the considerable and unexpected increase in the destruction of the forest, but also by poor international image that could lead to Rousseff.
The president was accused in the past to be very sensitive to environmental issues at the expense of large infrastructure projects, had made promises, even daring to defend the country's natural resources, Brazil as a model presenting a defense of nature. Rousseff has convened a crisis cabinet and has a blunt order: immediately quell the illegal destruction of the forest, for which he has called even the army.
"The determination of my Government is to deal with all means at our disposal the destruction of the Amazon. We will to act until the Army. All the federal government will be focused on combating environmental crime," said Izabella Teoxeira, Minister Environment. Indeed, the most controversial of the new Forest Code is the amnesty provided for in years past, taking the law to the bullfighter, swept up to 20% of the Amazon.
Analysts said the surprise caused by the increase of deforestation of the rainforest could even vote when the code in Congress. The Government has argued that it is true that the environment has lost interest during the terms of Lula da Silva and his successor Rousseff, since while in 2003 the rate of forest destruction had been 24,000 square kilometers in 2006 had declined to 6,000 square kilometers.
Environmentalists are arguing that governments should not feel secure or satisfied until the rate of deforestation in an area which offers, among other things, 24% of the world's drinking water, is zero, and not just that every year " less destroy it. " What the Government has to achieve is "to be left entirely to destroy the Amazon," Greenpeace said. 
The deforestation of the jungle in the last nine months has been of 1,848 square kilometers. Both environmentalists and members of the Government believe that this surprising increase may be due to the possible adoption in the coming days the new Forest Code, which takes years and stumbling in the controversy between environmentalists and landowners.
The new code provides, in effect, a broad amnesty for those who, years ago, had destroyed part of the global sanctuary and nature reserve on the planet, to market its precious wood, open roads for soybean planting or grazing for cattle. The truth is that the government has responded immediately, concerned not only because of the considerable and unexpected increase in the destruction of the forest, but also by poor international image that could lead to Rousseff.
The president was accused in the past to be very sensitive to environmental issues at the expense of large infrastructure projects, had made promises, even daring to defend the country's natural resources, Brazil as a model presenting a defense of nature. Rousseff has convened a crisis cabinet and has a blunt order: immediately quell the illegal destruction of the forest, for which he has called even the army.
"The determination of my Government is to deal with all means at our disposal the destruction of the Amazon. We will to act until the Army. All the federal government will be focused on combating environmental crime," said Izabella Teoxeira, Minister Environment. Indeed, the most controversial of the new Forest Code is the amnesty provided for in years past, taking the law to the bullfighter, swept up to 20% of the Amazon.
Analysts said the surprise caused by the increase of deforestation of the rainforest could even vote when the code in Congress. The Government has argued that it is true that the environment has lost interest during the terms of Lula da Silva and his successor Rousseff, since while in 2003 the rate of forest destruction had been 24,000 square kilometers in 2006 had declined to 6,000 square kilometers.
Environmentalists are arguing that governments should not feel secure or satisfied until the rate of deforestation in an area which offers, among other things, 24% of the world's drinking water, is zero, and not just that every year " less destroy it. " What the Government has to achieve is "to be left entirely to destroy the Amazon," Greenpeace said.
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