IBAMA to Facilitate the Authorisation of Sustainable Management Projects
A Crítica
August 9, 2000
The Ministry of the Environment should approve next week a set of measures that will facilitate the authorisation of projects to extract timber in a rational, sustainable fashion. The change should reverse the current situation, whereby landowners tend to gravitate towards indiscriminate deforestation due to the
difficulty of obtaining authorisation for sustainable forest management. The move was suggested by the president of the Department of Inspection of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), Donizetti Aurélio de Carmo. In other news, the superintendent of IBAMA in Amazonas, Hamilton Casara, has reconsidered his resignation request, after being convinced to remain at the post he has occupied for the past six years, by the director of the agency Marília Marreco Cerqueira and the Minister of the Environment José Sarney Filho.