Last Friday (September 11), so as to celebrate Cerrado Day, the Brazilian government carried out its first joint environmental supervision act in settlement projects. The operation took place near Niquelândia, in the state of Goiás, and aimed at reducing illegal deforestation in local Incra (Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária, or the Brazilian Institute for Agrarian Reform) settlement projects.
Brazilian Environment minister Carlos Minc and Incra's regional superintendent in Goiás, Rogério Paparardo Arantes, participated in the operation.
The idea, from now on, is to intensify environmental monitoring, control and supervision, as well as to carry out joint actions by Ibama (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dios Recursos Naturais Renováveis/the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources/Instituto ) and Incra on behalf of environmental licensing in local settlements. The operation will be repeated in other Brazilian states.
Near Niquelândia, Minister Minc helped demolish over 40 illegal charcoal kilns - which used native cerrado timber to supply metallurgical industries in Brazil's Southeast region with coal. Ibama/Incra teams also seized illegal timber and arrested people charged with environmental crimes.
Later, in Goiânia, the minister attended an Act in Defense of the Cerrado. Truckloads of timber were donated to Incra, for demarcation of the Pequena Vanessa II Reserve, in Bom Jardim de Goiás. The local fire brigade also received a truckload of timber and 81 chainsaws apprehended in Marabá (state of Bahia), which will now be used to combat environmental crimes in this exclusively Brazilian biome. "Cerrado means water - and deforestation means less water for people, for agriculture and for energy," said Minc. "We shall fight crime increasingly."
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