“What causes deforestation? In Brazil, the major cause is still agribusiness,” said Leila Salazar-Lopez, program director at Amazon Watch. Salazar-Lopez said the end of the moratorium is one more in a series of recent forest protection rollbacks. “With the news of deforestation increasing in Brazil, with the Forest Code being revamped, with the ‘ruralistas’ and agribusiness really having control of Congress and creating an assault on the environment and indigenous rights,” she said, “people should be very concerned.”
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:59:26 +0000