AMAZON: IN MAY 2013 DEFORESTATION INCREASED BY 400 PER CENT COMPARED TO MAY 2012

Dilma, puts this in the account!!!

With this title www.amazon.org.br emphasize the increase of deforestation in the Amazon in May 2013.

The partnership with the "rural bench" [Congressmen who defended the new Brazilian Forest Code, known nationally as "ruralists"] starts to pass a bitter invoice to the Government Dilma: deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, which took so long to start to be controlled, shows so evident signs of increase that even the Government cannot manage to hide!!!
In press conference this morning [5th July], the "Ibama" announced a trend of deforestation not reported before, in Brazil. According to the "Deter" (real-time deforestation detection) in May of 2013 the Amazon lost 46.5 thousand hectares (= 465 square kilometers) of forest.
NB -  1 hectare = 10,000 square meters = 2,471 acres.
"The numbers are of concern, but sadly predictable," says Kenzo Jucá, Greenpeace's Amazon campaign. "The Government Dilma has been conniving with deforestation. Ceded to the "ruralists" and, in the name of an old and predatory model, advances on protected areas and indigenous territories. Now the bill has come".
It should be noted that, in today's Conference, only the "Ibama" was present, while in the previous deforestation decrease or when there was slight increase, a circus with Ministers of State was mounted – today even Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment, was not present.

But, apparently, instead of zero deforestation in the Amazon, and show to the world at least one positive action of her Government, Dilma prefers to deliver the future of the forest and the Brazilians to those who have the chainsaw in place of hands.

In August 2012 to May 2013, the country lost 233.8 thousand hectares (= 2,338 square kilometers) of forest – an increase of 35 percent compared with the same period last year.

The pressure does not spare neither conservation units ("UCs") nor indigenous lands ("TIs-Terras indígenas"), which are the current target of "ruralists".
In May, the "Deter" reported 54 thousand hectares (= 540 square kilometers) of denuded forests in Ucs and 8.9 thousand hectares (= 89 square kilometers) in Tis.
The deforestation champion States in May were Mato Grosso, with 27.7 thousand hectares = 277 square kilometers), followed by Pará (13.4 thousand hectares = 134 square kilometers), Amazonas (3.3 thousand hectares = 33 square kilometers), Tocantins (900 hectares) (770), Rondônia and Maranhão (440 hectares).

Ibama applied R$ 1.7 billion [U$653,846,153] in fines for the period August to May of this year and placed embargo on 236 thousand hectares (= 2,360 square kilometers) of areas with illegal deforestation.

Source: Greenpeace