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.
Bonn UN Climate Change Conference
Summary of major topics of the Climate Change Conference, that was held in Bonn, Germany, in 2008. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE AMAZON - IPAM. Bonn UN Climate Change Conference. Bonn/Germany. June 13, 2008.