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Klaus Esterluß | Ideas

New brazilian land law softens environmental regulations, WWF alarmed

cleared rainforestThe Brazilian parliament has adopted a new, hotly-debated land law. Environmentalist fear that it puts the country’s rainforest, one of the world’s richest, at high risk.

Large landowners and peasants benefit from the law, because it eases existing restrictions: landowners are no longer bound to reforest riverbanks, for example, and environmental regulations have also been softened.

Date

April 26, 2012

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