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04/04/2012
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IBAMA seized on Monday two harvesters and 1,200 tons of soybeans (about 21 000 bags) produced in an area of 528 hectares illegally logged and choked since 2009 in New Ubiratã in northern Mato Grosso. Helicopter, the agents of the operation came to Green Footpaths uneven and caught him planting machines in operation. About half of the soybeans still in the field was seized and taken part already been found in a grain storage company in Feliz Natal, 10 km from the place of cultivation.
The area is choked São Lourenço on the farm, a property that accumulates three embargoes and more than R$ 2 million in fines from IBAMA. The historic property meets fines for illegal logging, fires and operation of natural resource user activity without an environmental permit. The tenant - who, despite all this environmental liability, even rented land - eventually fined R$ 200,000 for failing the embargo and IBAMA for R$ 2.6 million for having obstructed the natural regeneration of forest to agricultural activity . All soy seized and machinery will be donated to social programs at the end of the administrative process in IBAMA.
During the action, representatives of the lessee and the farm had an environmental license to tax a portion of the property (about 143 hectares), issued by the Department of Environment of Mato Grosso, which did not prevent the fines and seizure of the area still choking . Even the area licensed by the state, which corresponds to less than 30% of the land where the booked planted soybeans could not be used before the suspension of the federal ban.
Product risk
To avoid getting lost in the field seized soybeans, IBAMA authorized the resumption of the harvest after the seizure. The product will be stored in the same company Feliz Natal where is the rest of the grains. Reportedly, the lessee of the area choked actually negotiated all soybeans planted and would only be "delivering" the product at the company store. "If the transaction is confirmed, the company that bought embargoed soybean area will also be assessed and will still be without the product, which is illegal," explains the head of the Surveillance Division of IBAMA in Sinop, Werikson Trigueiro, noting that any person can refer to the embargoed areas of IBAMA in the Institute's internet page. The fine for purchasing products embargoed area is R$ 500 per kilo.
Breaks embargoes
Since the beginning of Operation Green Paths in February, environmental agents supervise compliance with sanctions imposed by IBAMA to deforested areas in northern Mato Grosso. The institute has already inspected about 20 properties in 2012, these embargoes eight breached and eventually fined. To date, fines for breaking the embargo add about R$ 3.5 million. The total assessments in the transaction is approximately R$ 58 million, mostly from deforestation of forest regeneration, for deployment soybean fields.
Nelson Feitosa
Ascom / IBAMA / PA
Source: IBAMA
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