Imazon confirms fall of the pace of deforestation in the Amazon
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NGO's report indicates that progress of the devastation fell 38% in January.
Government measures are unsuccessful, suggest researchers.
The main independent institution that measures the deforestation of the Amazon confirmed the reduction of deforestation identified by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Second report on this Thursday (5) by the Institute of Man and Environment in Amazonia (Imazon) in January was the destruction of 51 square kilometers of forests in the Amazon, an area equivalent to three times the island of Fernando de Noronha.
Although high, the index shows a fall of 38% on the month of January 2008, when deforestation somou 82 square kilometers. The organization caveat that the data may be underestimated, because these last two months there was great coverage of clouds in the region. Moreover, the share of Maranhão that make the Amazon was not examined.
Actions of government
According to study by Imazon, the reduction of deforestation in recent months due to increased surveillance, seizure and sale of 'pirated bois' and particularly the prohibition of loans to owners of agricultural land that had deforestation.
Considering the high price of beef and soybean in 2008 - these indices tend to influence the rate of deforestation - the Imazon estimates that the government managed to reduce about 3,300 square kilometers of devastation, the equivalent of twice the municipality of São Paulo .
Estimates by NGOs show that deforestation began to fall sharply in July 2008, the month that the measure came into force prohibiting the Central Bank loans to farmers who were not up to date with environmental legislation.
"These data show that agricultural credit is a great role [in reducing the destruction]," says researcher Paulo Barreto, one of the authors of the study of Imazon.
For Barreto, are also needed more seizures of livestock created illegally, mainly in parks and reserves. "São Félix do Xingu [which was the seizure of 'steers pirates'], in Pará, was one of the cities that most reduced the deforestation," he explains.
Source: Globo Amazônia
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