Brazil’s Environment Ministry has implemented controversial provisions to the country’s forest protection law, officially suspending fines for some landowners who illegally cut their property.
The ministry’s enforcement agency (IBAMA) issued a measure effective Aug. 7 that lists the procedures landowners must follow to seek suspension of fines under amnesty provisions of the Forest Code, a law revised in 2012.
One provision suspends fines and replanting requirements for owners of parcels of up to 400 hectares (988 acres) who illegally cut a higher proportion of their land than allowed before July 22, 2008, when a decree set tougher rules for restoring ...
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