Wednesday 7 December 2011

Another stake in the heart of climate change and targets

Brazil, the hope for future sustainable forestry management has dealt a severe and arguably deathly blow to it's sustainable forestry conservation strategy with the new forest code, recently approved by the Senate, meaning that the buffer zone will be reduced, allowing more deforestation to take place.

In a world when there are desperate calls to preserve our environment it appears that one of the country's with the largest pristine forested areas is like the rest of the world putting the economy over the environment - what would Kuznet say!

Amazon rainforest

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