[Reproduced from www.amazonia.org.br, 25th April, 2014]
The new forest code, approved in 2012, reduces in 58% the deforested area in the country that should be restored, says analysis of a group of Brazilian researchers published in today's Edition of the journal "Science".
The law, still undergoing regulation, gives amnesty to a total 29 million hectares of forests destroyed illegally before 2008. In addition, it keeps the possibility of legalizing other 88 million hectares of deforested area, says the scientists led by Britaldo Soares-Filho, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
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"Brazil, in 50 years predicted for reforestation, only managed to recover 7 million hectares," says Niro Higushi, a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. "If we got 21 million, it would be a miracle. The fight is to contain the advance of deforestation that continues. "
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