Push to protect Amazon forests
From Times Wire Reports
Brazil announced that it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal police to the Amazon River basin to monitor and prevent deforestation.
The initiative is designed to identify illegal deforestation and ban the sale of livestock and produce grown in illegally deforested areas, with violators subject to fines and loss of credit from government institutions.
The measures require rural property owners to reregister their holdings in the Amazon to ensure compliance with Brazil’s environmental laws.
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