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15/05/2012
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Sinop (14/05/2012) - IBAMA caught last Friday in a reserve area where illegal logging occurred in rural Paranaíta, 65Km municipality of Alta Floresta, northern Mato Grosso. The team of inspectors noted several branches and veins in the operating reserve. The main species exploited was the essence of chestnut with trees that reach 140 cm in diameter and 25m high. At the site there were six men who were sued in the act.
In this assessment, the property owner marketed and exploited trees from his property using wood in construction and improvements on the farm. According to the coordinator of the action, Emerson Luiz Servello, the chestnut trees appear on lists of endangered species. "The cutting and use of these trees are prohibited in any respect," he informs.
The executive manager of IBAMA in Sinop, Evandro Selva, stresses the importance of civil society participation in the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, according to him, the citizen is a partner of IBAMA, the time it denounces the practice of illegal logging. "With the active participation and strong society, the environment wins environmentalist and citizen himself, who only have to lose is bad steward," he says.
Badaró Ferrari Ascom - IBAMA
Source: IBAMA
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