Entrepreneurs and environmentalists sent a note to the rapporteur, Deputy Zé Vitor (PL-MG), to try to convince him to reject a device that.
In the Senate, the proposal was included in the revocation of excerpts from the law specifically dealing with the sealing to the primary and secondary forest areas, the most preserved in this biome.
“This change represents a huge threat to the biome and exponential growth of deforestation. It endangers the most important forest remnants of the Atlantic Forest,” the document says.
According to the note, this portion represents the most mature part of the forest, essential for the survival of the biome and equivalent to 12% of the original forest coverage.
The document also states that the Atlantic Forest Law was responsible for a 80% drop in deforestation rates in this biome: 110,000 hectares per year, before the approval of the legislation (in 2006), to less than 15 thousand hectares, a reduction of 80%.
Today, nine of 17 states that hold Atlantic Forest forests have zero deforestation, but the environmental licensing bill, revoking the protection of primary and secondary areas, threatens all these regions, where more than 120 million people currently live.
If rejecting the Senate device, “the noble rapporteur will prevent deforestation rates rise again and that Brazil’s international commitments on climate and biodiversity are honored, favoring productive activities, sustainability and climate resilience in the 17 state -of -the -art states,” the document concludes.
The letter is signed by the SOS Mata Atlântica Foundation board-entrepreneurs Pedro Passos and Roberto Klabin, vice-presidents of SOS Mata Atlântica, environmentalist Marcia Hirota, president, environmentalist Clayton Lino and researcher Fernando Reinach, counselors.
The project should be voted this week at.
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