Brazil Launches Large Reforestation Program in Amazon
Posted on: Monday, 2 June 2008, 09:20 CDT
Brazil on Friday formally launched a large reforestation project to grow 1 billion trees in the country's Amazon area in five years.
The project, "One Billion Trees for the Amazon," was launched at an inaugural ceremony attended by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Ana Julia Carepa, governor of the state of Para, where the Amazon situated.
At the ceremony, Lula and Carepa symbolically sowed seeds of endangered species of trees. The final target is set for 2013.
The project will involve 143 municipalities in Para to consolidate the state's image as a protector and repairer of the Amazon rainforest.
Along with the Bank of the Amazon and government-funded Banco do Brasil, the Para government will finance the program with subsidies worth 600 million U.S. dollars.
The project will benefit 120,000 agricultural producers, who will help reach almost half of the final target.
The program will also prevent the emission of over 10 million tons of carbon per year, part of Para's climate change plan aimed at reducing carbon emissions, deforestation and environmental degradation.
Additionally, the Brazilian government will set up a research center to study native species in the Amazon, and develop technology for the genetic improvement of species.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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Posted by Matt on 06/04/2008, 01:13 At the current rate of destruction wrought by soy and cattle ranchers, particularly with the arrival of industrial-scale operations of multinational agribusinesses, the Amazon will be little more than a gigantic savanna in 50 years. Corporations like Bunge, Cargill, and Archer Daniels Midland are mowing down Earth's carbon sink as fast as they possibly can, and they don't care whose lives they destroy in the process: mostly poor and politically powerless peasant farmers and indigenous peoples. Perfect example of how unbridled capitalist greed is wrecking the planet. |
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