Bolsonaro’s Christmas Gift to Perpetrators of Illegal Deforestation

/ AGR Free Press

HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Danicley Aguiar*

(Greenpeace International)* — 2019 was a terrible year for the Amazon Rainforest – threats to its survival have intensified, but the situation can always get worse. A new Provisional Presidential Decree (PPD) 910, signed on Tuesday [12 December 2019] by President Jair Bolsonaro, gives criminals a huge Christmas gift — in the form of a gigantic piece of illegally occupied public land in the Amazon that will now be offered for legal use.

Forest Fires in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Amazon - Third Overflight (2019). © Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace
With the new legislation, the Bolsonaro administration shows that environmental crime pays in the Amazon. © Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace © Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace

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