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03/27/2012
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Published Ordinance defines municipalities that will be monitored by the government.
Maranhão, Tocantins and Bahia are more cities in the list of ministry.
Lower Grande do Ribeiro, Piauí, and other 51 cities in five different states entered the list of cities that most deforested Cerrado, and because of that, will be subject to surveillance measures and reclamation.
The information was released on Monday (26) by the Ministry of Environment has published ordinance identifying the priority cities monitoring and control of illegal logging in biome. Maranhão is the state with the largest number of municipalities in the list: 20, followed by Bahia and Tocantins.
According to the government, the rate of cutting of native vegetation has been faster than the Amazon. Deforestation has reached 48.5% of the biome, following the expansion of agriculture in the region.
According to the director to combat deforestation in MMA, Mauro Pires, chain saws in the region act on behalf of coal production, livestock farming and so-called white matter, which includes the planting of soybeans, cotton and rice.
Last September, the MMA announced that the Brazilian Cerrado had a deforested area of 6469 km ² between 2009 and 2010. The number equates to a reduction of 15.3% over the previous measurement (2008-2009), when the biome lost 7,637 km ².
Alert
A list of 52 cities loggers concentrate 44% of the devastation recorded in the biome, although they represent little more than 3% of the total number of cities of Cerrado, where the cut vegetation has to be monitored by satellites since 2008.
Unlike what happened with the list of priority municipalities of the Amazon to combat deforestation, the cities of Cerrado will not have suspended new permits cutting of native vegetation or cut credit.
Although it has reached almost half of the biome, the deforestation in the region is far from reaching the legal limit set by the Forest Code: 65%, in the Amazon, and the remaining 20% of the biome area.
"It is a further challenge in the Amazon is simpler," acknowledged Mauro Pires, insisting that the government's objective is to maintain areas of native vegetation and restoration of degraded areas.
Analysis
The criteria for entry to the list of priority cities in the Cerrado were two: the clearing of over 25 square kilometers between 2009 and 2010 and the record more than 20% of native vegetation remaining.
Currently the list of priority municipalities of the Amazon brings together 48 cities, and out of it, the municipalities have to collect more than 80% of properties registered with the Rural Environmental Registry, besides reducing deforestation less than 40 square kilometers in the year.
The city of Piaui Baixa Grande do Ribeiro was the most deforested Cerrado, according to latest official figures. In one year, lost 394 km ² of native vegetation or 5% of the municipal area. It is followed in ranking by Uruçuí in the state, Formosa do Rio Preto and Sao Desiderio in Bahia, and Mateiros, in Tocantins.
Source: News Agency
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