Organized crime controls Amazon in Brazil-Judge
2022.12.08 08:04
Organized crime controls Amazon in Brazil-Judge
Budrigannews.com – Brazil may lose control of its vast Amazon (NASDAQ:) A Supreme Court judge issued a warning on Wednesday about the rainforest region’s potential for drug traffickers and organized crime.
Justice Luis Roberto Barroso suggested that environmental experts, investors, and local authorities collaborate on ideas for sustainable development that would help the 25 million people who live in the Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest, preserve it and improve their standard of living.
The Amazon is seen as crucial to the fight against climate change because it absorbs a lot of the greenhouse gases that cause warming.
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In an interview, he stated, “There is a real risk of losing the sovereignty of the Amazon not to any other country, but to organized crime.”
Under Jair Bolsonaro, the current president of Brazil, illegal activities have increased in the Amazon, aided by weaker environmental protections and less money for law enforcement agencies.
Barroso stated, “Brazilian authorities will have to be very committed to confronting environmental crimes like illegal logging and mining, deforestation, land grabs, and the murder of forest defenders.”
Barroso, who was in Egypt for the COP27 UN climate talks in November, suggested that Brazil bring together “the best minds in the world” to talk about how to create a “bioeconomy” for the Amazon to stop the area from getting worse.
He stated, “We obviously want the ideas of the world, but without giving up even a millimeter of sovereignty.”
Foreign environmentalists and non-governmental organizations have been criticized by Bolsonaro, the current president of Brazil, for interfering with Brazil’s sovereignty over the Amazon.
The far-right president appointed climate skeptics as ministers, which led to a 15-year high in deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon Fund, to which Norway and Germany contributed more than $1 billion to support sustainable projects in the region, was paralyzed by Bolsonaro.
When Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated Bolsonaro in the October elections, takes office in January, the fund will be reactivated. Lula has pledged to crack down on environmental crimes and end criminal impunity in the Amazon.
“The world depends on the Amazon’s preservation. Barroso stated, “I defend that the world contributes to the preservation of the Amazon.”
