Brazil's right-wing government to privatise management of national parks starting this year
This May 8, 2018 photo released by the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute shows an illegally deforested area in Brazil's Amazon basin.
A system to carry out the privatisation will be in place "definitely this year," Salles told reporters following a hearing in Brazil's Senate.Activists and environmentalists have said they fear right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who assumed office in January 2019, will roll back environmental oversight in the country in favour of economic development.
The effort is being made to do the maximum possible without disturbing a process that relies both on an economic model but also on well executed sustainability." The institute is named for Mendes, the defender of the Amazon rainforest who was murdered for his work. Salles called Mendes "irrelevant" in a television interview earlier this year.
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