The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil inherited, in its National Forest Program, a formidable proposal to increase the area designated to national forests (Flonas) in the Amazon from eight to 50 million hectares by the year 2010. This objective is an ambitious and worthy conservation goal, and one that appears to be holding approval, give or take a few million hectares, within the new government. Attached to this plan, however, is a lingering desire to allow private timber harvesting on Flonas through a system of forest concessions.
Código Florestal – Avaliação 2012-2016
Código Florestal – Avaliação 2012-2016
Relatório desenvolvido pelo Observatório do Código Florestal, do qual o IPAM faz parte, avalia a implementação do novo Código Florestal. O documento, que tem coordenação editorial de Andrea Azevedo e Tiago Reis do IPAM, discute ponto a ponto os problemas, os avanços e as responsabilidades para colocar em prática o principal instrumento legal que regula o uso do solo em imóveis rurais no Brasil.