The Brazilian forest plan, which sets guidelines to manage the Amazonian rain forest, is under attack by agricultural groups. These groups seek to change a policy which requires land owners to maintain up to 80% of their land as forest, a regulation which while often ignored, is an economic and managerial impediment for many cattle ranchers. Ranchers are the main culprit in Brazilian rain forest deforestation, and if they are successful in limiting the capacity of the Brazilian government to
The outcome of this policy debate has enormous implications for the protection of the Amazon rainforest and will also shine a light on the potency of the Brazilian governments environmental arm. This also relates back to efforts to protect the forests of South America, discussed in the prior post. There have also been successes in getting South American cattle producers to not use deforested land, which you can check out in the video below:
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