Brazil’s
new environment minister Carlos Minc has called for the timber sector
to replicate a soya deal which bans purchases of soya from deforested
areas of the Amazon, The timber Industry Magazine reported. Mr Minc’s
comments came as he announced a one-year extension to the soya
purchasing ban.
Greenpeace
welcomed the move and said a “firewall” of moratoria on soya, beef and
timber could be the key to achieving the protection needed to save the
Amazon rainforest. “Inspired by the success of this initiative, the
Brazilian government is negotiating similar approaches with the timber
and beef industries,” Mr Minc told.
