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07/09/2012
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Action prevents the creation of settlements without a license in six states.
According to MP, local concentrated pockets of deforestation in the region.
Prosecutors of the Federal Public Ministry of Pará filed suit in the states of Para, Amazonas, Roraima, Rondonia, Mato Grosso and Acre to try to curb deforestation in settlements from the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra), which greatly increased the last seven years. In 2005, the cutting of trees on these sites represented approximately one fifth of the total deforestation of the region. Today a third of the trees felled in the forest were located in the settlements.
According to the MP, almost 30% of illegal deforestation in the Amazon are registered in settlements that should be earmarked for land reform. The survey was conducted with data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazilian Institute of Environment (IBAMA) and the Institute of Man and Environment in the Amazon (Imazon), which monitor the environmental degradation of the region through satellite images .
Of the six states, Pará is what has most land reform projects: 1220. According to the MP most settlement clearing down has at least 50% of the vegetation. In some places, like the settlement Tuerê, in southeast Pará, the cutting of trees has increased six times over the past 10 years.
In stocks, the MPF asks ban on creation of new settlements without an environmental permit and recovery of deforested areas, and the interruption of deforestation, according to the Attorney Daniel Azeredo, were being encouraged by the Incra. "Several documents were sent to prosecutors by local governments saying that the orientation of the INCRA settlements is that they do not deforest, there will be the creation of the settlement and, consequently, the agrarian reform."
Incra said it will only manifest itself on the matter in court after being notified, but that guides the settlers to practice the extraction, retaining 80% of preserved native forest.
Source: G1 News
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