FRA
is joining the campaign to increase pressure on Brazilian President,
Dilma Rousseff to veto the Forestry Bill.
Seattle,
United States, May 21, 2012 -- Forestry Research Associates (FRA)
is joining the campaign to increase pressure on Brazilian President,
Dilma Rousseff to veto the Forestry Bill.
FRA,
a research and analysis consultancy specialising in sustainable
forestry and forestry investments, has added its voice to those of
environmental groups all over the world who are campaigning for the
forestry bill to be thrown out by the popular president. The bill
would allow those carrying out illegal logging to get away without
paying fines through an amnesty. It would also open up areas of
forest to loggers to make way for the cultivation of riverbanks
regions.
During
Rousseff’s campaign trail in 2010, she promised to veto the bill,
which campaigners claim threatens the future of the Amazon rainforest
and the un-contacted tribes that live in its depths.
The
current laws ensure that around 80 per cent of the privately owned
land in the Amazon remain as forest, while the new bill would allow
landowners to cultivate more of this land.
FRA
said that the bill represents a major threat to the good work that
the Brazilian government has done over the past decade to try to
limit deforestation. It said that the moves to draw industry away
from the use of forest timber and towards the use of timber grown in
sustainable plantations, such as those run by investment firms like
Greenwood
Management, has helped to significantly reduce the
rate at which rainforests are being destroyed in the Latin American
country.
"This
bill represents the largest threat to the Amazon that we have seen
for years," stated FRA’s analysis partner Peter Collins.
He
added, “We call upon President Rousseff to fulfil her pre-election
manifesto by vetoing the plans to open up more of the Amazon to
agriculture and development. We are also against the amnesty for
illegal loggers that sends the wrong message to those involved in the
practice all over the world.”
About
Forestry Research Associates
Forestry
Research Associates is a research and advisory consultancy that
focuses on forestry management, sustainability issues and forestry
investment around the globe.
Media
Contact:
Peter
Collins
Forestry
Research Associates
620
Vineyard Lane
Bainbridge
Island, WA 98110
(206)
316 8394
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