06/25/2021
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The Brazilian parliament along with the endorsement of president Bolsonaro and his administration have passed a legislative package that will deeply change key environmental legislation.
PL 490 violates indigenous rights and the fundamental way of life and culture of indigenous people of Brazil;
these bills will:
a) grant amnesty to land grabbers and generate deforestation of up to 16 million hectares by 2027
b) allow for the construction of major projects(roads,dams,railways) in well conserved areas of forest not taking into consideration the deforestation that they will cause, which can amount to around 14.7 million hectares if projects for new roads, or improvements to existing roads, are implemented in the Amazon without proper assessment
c) open indigenous lands to the implantation of dams, mining, oil exploitation and industrial farming, what will generate social conflicts and put at risk 115 million hectares of forests currently protected
d) downsize or degazette dozens of protected areas
e) allow new deforestation of up to 178 million hectares on private land.
If the Parliament approve this legislative package, it will be impossible to control deforestation and violence against indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the Amazon in the next decade, as it will affect profoundly the legal framework and will start negative processes hard to reverse in the short or mid-term. With that, the forest will get dangerously closer of its tipping point, what, if happens, will be a climate disaster.
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