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Brazilian congressional committee to look into Amazon deforestation |
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Written by Gerhard Monke
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
 Brazil's Chamber of Deputies plans to form a congressional committee to look into deforestation in the Amazon.
Deputy Nelson Pinto used data from the government to justify the request for an investigation committee. The chamber's Commission for the Environment and Sustainable Development approved the proposal. To install the committee, the commission needs to collect signatures from 171 federal deputies.
While the government had earlier reported a drop in deforestation rates this year, DeforestationWatch and environmentalists around the world are still dissatisfied and highlight the prevalence of illegal logging in the region.
A study illustrating a rise in illegal logging in Para and Rondonia, northern Brazil as well as in Mato Grosso was released by the National Space Research Institute (INPE) recently.
Pinto said, "We do not intend to investigate specific cases of deforestation. We need to understand how destruction occurs in the Amazon forest, its causes and consequences, as well as to identify those to blame for it."
He has suggested investigations focus on deforestation over the past 10 years. THE END.
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