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to maintain 80% of forests as legal reserves. This particular requirement has never been effectively implemented and implementation has again been delayed by President

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until June 2011. The original law, passed in 1965, required only 50%. Neither this nor the 80% requirement have ever been prosecuted. This had been expected to change with harsher and criminal penalties to be introduced in 2009. Then President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva however, delayed this until the post election period in 2011, though Presidential Decree number 7029. While the measure has never been formally adopted into law it has been estimated that other Government policies have reduced logging from 21.5 thousand square kilometers in 2002 to 7.0 thousand in 2009. The code remains an enduring source of controversy for environmentalists and agriculturalists. On 28 February 2018,

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upheld forestry law changes which comes as a blow to environmentalists trying to protect the world's largest rain forest. According to environmentalists, the revised laws which are also known as the forest code, would give a rise to illegal deforestation, whereas the farmers and the agricultural lobby welcomes the new law and suggest that it is going to be pivotal for the growth of agricultural sector of the

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Modification

A modification of the Brazilian Forest Code (Law project 1.876/99) was proposed. It passed both houses of the Parliament of Brazil, but former president

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vetoed some of its proportions. Environmentalists were opposed to the law, and said it would to further

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, and would have opened areas logged illegally before July 2008 for farming. The

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urged Rousseff to completely veto the bill, and

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, a global activist group, collected two million signatures opposing the legislation.

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Investidas históricas contra o Código Florestal Brasileiro

O "novo" Código Florestal Brasileiro: conceitos jurídicos fundamentais

A aberração dos quatro módulos fiscais

contrárias à proposta de alteração do Código Florestal
by NGO ''SOS Florestas''

11.May.2011
Para ONGs, Brasil perde liderança ambiental ao mudar Código Florestal
26.April.2012

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