Sentences with phrase «illegal deforestation projects»
With this disposition, the Brazilian government hopes to stop around 2,6 billion Reais a year (about 1,3 billion US dollars) in financing to illegal deforestation projects.
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Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.
The Nature Conservancy did an avoided deforestation project (a forest carbon project) in Peru, and worked with the government there to put specific restrictions on an area that had been suffering from illegal logging.
Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.
With the help of this system, known as Project Monitoring Deforestation in the Amazon (PRODES), along with improvements in land management on a local and federal level, that has allowed for illegal logging practices to slow in recent years.