[Gasification] Brazil deforestation grows

[Benjamin Domingo Bof]

It deforests in the Amazônia it grows and it puts Planalto in alert
 MARTA SALOMON
of the Folha of S.Paulo Publishing
 CLAUDE ANGELO 
of Science of the Folha of S.Paulo
 It withhold, detection system of deforestation in real time of the Inpe (National Institute of Space Research) registered the 3.235 falling of trees of km2 of forest in the Amazônia in last the five months of 2007. But the real area devastada between August and December can have reached the double of this: up to 7.000 km2, according to Ministry of the Environment. The data had been presented in this new Wednesday in alert of deforestation in the Amazônia. Worried, president Luiz Inácio Squid Da Silva today convoked a meeting of emergency with six ministers in the Palace of Planalto. As evaluation of the team of the minister Marina Silva(Environment), the picture made for Deter indicates a high trend of "inequívoca" in the rhythm of motosserras, whose action the government came obtaining to contain since 2004. The reheating of the devastação from 2007 middle already came being indicated for projections of the proper Inpe and an independent system, of the Imazon, a ONG of
 research of Belém. For the Inpe, the rhythm revealed especially sped up in Mato Grosso -- that it had lost the leadership in ranking of the deforestation for Pará -- and in November and December, months where traditionally does not have flat cut of the forest because it rains very.  according to Imazon, however, the real explosion in the end of the year happened in Pará: data that will be published today by the ONG show to a growth of 300% in November in relation the October. For the five months (August the December), the loss of the forest increased 74%. For the Inpe, the increase was of only 18%. For Adalberto Veríssimo, of the Imazon, despite the discrepancies both the data bring a clear message: "O increase of the deforestation absolutely is confirmed and well caracterizado". In 2007 middle, when this trend started to appear, it remembers Veríssimo, the government denied the ascent. Now, if the projections of the MMA will be certain, in five months, three of them
 (October the December) of traditional decrease in the devastação, cut 62% of everything what it was cut in the last year. Ox and soy, the pressure for increase of the soy production and meat are clearly Marina Hiss pointed as probable causes of the increase of the deforestation, commodities whose prices had gone up. The satellites indicate that the deforestation if concentrated in producing regions of soy - it Northeast weeds-grossense, where the governor of the State, Blairo Maggi, has a farm -- and of cattle - it Southeastern of Pará. "A cattle and the soy is typical activities of these States; the economic reality indicates that these activities pressure desmatamento", the minister observed. we "Esperamos to obtain to contain the same deforestation with the increase of the price of commodities." Veríssimo, of the Imazon, if says worried about what it will happen from April, when the dry Amazônia and the esquenta deforestation for real. "A decision to deforest due to the
 increase of commodities already is taken. As the government goes to revert isso?" It affirms that the Plan of Prevention and Control of the Deforestation of the government still did not incorporate the restrictions of credit to the agricultural producers that deforest illegally. Without this, he evaluates, he will be difficult to prevent a disaster in 2008. they "Sem control of the production, we will not have solution for desmatamento", it invested to Gilbert Chamber, director of the Inpe, when defending the tracking of the origin of the soy and the cattle in the Amazônia. This must be the subject most controversial of the meeting of today in Plateaus: as to conciliate the increase of the farming production and the advance of the agricultural border with the fall of the deforestation. The team of the Environment suggests the use most intense of 160 a thousand kilometers squared of areas of knocked down forests already, areas that little would be used to advantage. The
 Ministry of Agriculture esteem in R$ 850 the cost for hectare of recovery of degraded grass and evaluates that the high value stimulates abates it of trees for the opening of new grass. Decree edited in December for Squid punishes who to commercialize or same to carry products from illegally deforested areas. we "Vamos to make responsible all the chain produtiva", it insisted João Pablo Capobianco, secretary-executive of the Environment. The decree will start to be regulated in the next days, with the spreading of the list of the 30 cities that more knock down forest. The champions are São Félix of the Xingu and Cumaru of the North, both in Pará, followed of Colniza (MT). The increase of the price of commodities is only one of the pressure factors on the forest. Marina Silva also attributes to the proximity of the municipal elections a bigger resistance of the local governing to the action of the inspectors of the Ibama (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and the
 Natural resources You renewed). 

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