Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

The deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region sharply declined between 2005 and 2015, sharply increased in 2016, then declined in 2017. According to the preliminary data of IMAZON, this trend is currently reversed, and the forest reduction rate increased by 22% from the previous year in August 2017 to May 2018. However, so far INPE officials have confirmed that this rapid increase is lacking.

Experts believe that the fundamental cause of this rise is a large amount of inspiration from the rural business lobby group that has won many recent legislative and administrative victories and has dramatically reduced the budget of the environment and indigenous agencies It is said to be a land-based fisherman who received support. We will also promote a bill that will reduce the protection of troops and infringe the right to land

The recent Codex Supreme Court ruling may further encourage fines for many illegal deforestation if wealthy land looters are given amnesty billions of pardon. Today Pula 's Triunfo Xingu Environment Protected Area and Apyterewa' s Aboriginal Area are particularly threatened by land looting.

The same goes for Jamansim National Forest in Pará, the same thing can be said, the land thieves hoping Congress to pass a bill to forget protected areas and other Brazilian protection groups. Environmentalists worry that the October presidential election of Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist known as "the trump card of the heart", may lead to a rapid increase in deforestation

In Brazil five years after the adoption of the new Forest Law, the deforestation rate has now increased by 60%. Amazon faces a vicious circle of drought and loss of forest, and deforestation in the Chaco region of Paraguay caused irreparable damage, but the Brazilian Government continues to deliver it to mining and agribusiness. Other governments also maintained this suicidal idea and the Australian Government has changed the law on indigenous people's property rights to make it easier for mining companies to acquire land use rights.

Despite satisfactory results in Brazil, forest destruction is still a global problem. In 2014, the world lost 182,000 square kilometers of forest equivalent to North Dakota Province. In addition, Amazon has not yet escaped the hardship and can not guarantee that a promising trend will continue. However, in Brazil it has been proved that it is possible to reduce deforestation in a short period of time and in the next few years it is really possible to completely stop Amazon deforestation. Brazil's actions provide a roadmap to other tropical countries that fight deforestation. Due to the expansion of oil palm plantation, Indonesia surpasses Brazil as the country with the highest cutting rate and it is necessary to take action immediately. In order to solve this problem, Norway agreed with Indonesia through Indonesia through REDD + in 2010 to prevent further concessions.