Brazil Launches 'Sustainable' Amazon Plan. Mongabay.com, May 15, 2008. "The Brazilian government will use cheap loans, payments, and other benefits to encourage Amazon farmers to reduce their impact on the Amazon rainforest, under a plan unveiled last week. Brazil says the Sustainable Amazon Plan will create jobs, generate economic growth and reduce social inequalities for the more than 23 million people living in the Amazon by promoting sustainable development schemes and improving infrastructure to integrate the region into the broader economy. Critics say the plan's emphasis on port and road expansion will facilitate more deforestation -- Environment Minister Marina Silva resigned shortly after the plan was announced."
2008-05-16
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