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New Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…The Brazilian Congress is analyzing a bill that would leave all the country’s non-forestry vegetation unprotected, affecting an area twice the size of the United Kingdom.
A bill framed to benefit a particular group of rural producers was morphed into a drastic change to the Brazilian Forest Code with the potential of destroying 48 million hectares — an area twice the size of the United Kingdom — of native vegetation all over the country. If approved, the legislation will allow the conversion of all non-forestry areas for activities such as agriculture, cattle ranching and tree plantations.
The strategy of introducing controversial legislative changes into somewhat-related bills is so common in Brazil that it even has a name:The PL 364/2019 bill was approved by a commission of the Brazilian Congress lower house, in another victory for the agribusiness caucus. Image courtesy of Bruno Spada/Deputies Chamber., a Brazilian organization that defends traditional peoples, told Mongabay.
Oviedo noted that these areas are also essential to avoid major floods in urban areas. “When these grasslands are close to bodies of water, they dampen the floods, absorbing that pulse of flooding and gradually returning it to the river.”
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