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03/27/2012
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With use of forest guides rigged, a timber in Sinop, the 503 km from Cuiabá, was responsible for the destruction of approximately three thousand hectares of native forest in Mato Grosso. In last Thursday (22), the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA) embargoed the company.
According to agency estimates, fraud equals 1200 truckloads of cargo irregular. Also according to IBAMA, the heated timber forest products illegal for more than 15 months and may have moved in around R$ 9 million in transactions with the guides ideologically false.
After unveiling the scheme, IBAMA has blocked access to the company's Sisflora (state system that controls the trade in forest products in Mato Grosso) and fined the person legally responsible for R$ 8 million for selling native wood and rigged with documentation R$ 300 thousand for inserting false data in environmental control systems in the country.
Since the beginning of the year, IBAMA combat illegal deforestation of the Amazon in northern Mato Grosso, the region is on the agricultural frontier of the state and rates of deforestation leads biome. The institute has implemented about R$ 52 million in fines, 19 embargoed properties that together add up to three thousand acres of illegally deforested areas and seized 30 tractors, seven trucks, a car ride and six chainsaws.
Source: Environment Brazil
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