Report: Brazil authorities pay no mind to deforestation

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By FABIANO MAISONNAVE

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public forests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police — the Brazilian version of the FBI — carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study.

The destruction took place in state and federal forests that are “unallocated,” meaning they do not have a designated use the way national parks and Indigenous territories do. According to official data, the Brazilian Amazon has about 580,000 square kilometers (224,000 square miles) of forests in this category, or an area almost the size of Ukraine.

As Brazil has repeatedly legalized such invasions, these public forests have become the main target for criminals who illegally seize land.

The study, from Igarapé Institute, a Brazilian think tank, analyzed 302 environmental crime raids carried out by the Federal Police in the Amazon between 2016 and 2021. Only 2% targeted people illegally seizing undesignated public lands.



FILE - Monhire Menkragnotire, of the Kayapo indigenous community, center, surveys an area where illegal loggers opened a road to enter Menkragnotire indigenous lands, on the border with the Biological Reserve Serra do Cachimbo, top, where logging is also illegal, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil on Aug. 31, 2019. Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public forests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study released Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)


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[bahboo]

1. fucking Bolsonaro is doing all he can...

to kill the planet. Goddamn psychopath....

[Bayard]

2. People refuse to see they're cutting their own throats

[Hestia]

3. What is really screwed up about the monsters clearing the land, is that the land can only

support one year's crop of anything. The soil is not nutritious or has enough minerals or top soil to support more, so in order to keep up the pretense that this is over crops, they have to clear larger and larger areas. Nothing will ever grow there and now the forest is one big desert.

[sakabatou]

4. Once the forest is gone, we're not getting it back.

And the Brazilian government cares more about money than the environment.