Brazil's President Signs Law Increasing Environment Destruction Fine
9/24/99
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Title: President signs new law that increases fine for
environmental destruction
Source: SEJUP (Servico Brasileiro de Justica e Paz)
http://www.oneworld.org/sejup/
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: September 24, 1999
The fines for punishing those who degrade the rainforest are now
as high as R$50 million, according to a new law signed by President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The law is aimed at those who illegally
cut trees in protected rainforests, or those who kill and/or capture
protected species of animals. The minimum fine is $R1000. Before
the law was signed, the maximum fine was $4,900.
Source: Folha de Sao Paulo
September 22, 1999