Congress approves urgency in voting of bill that reopens a road on Iguaçu National Park

The lower house of Congress approved, on June 9, an urgent request to vote the bill 984/2019, which legislates about the reopening of a road that cuts through the Iguaçu National Park, in western Paraná state. The “Colono” road was closed in 1986 because of the environmental damage it caused to the conservation unit.

The Iguaçu National Park is the last great reserve of the Atlantic Rainforest, the most threatened biome in the country. Environmentalists say that since the road was closed, the jaguar population in the region rose.

An article in the portal O Eco highlighted a study by the National University of Cordoba points that the reopening of the road could lead to an increase in the hunt of native animals.