At the end of his term, Bolsonaro facilitates logging on indigenous lands

Two weeks before the end of its mandate, Jair Bolsonaro (PL) decided to authorize “forest management” within indigenous lands. In practice, this means allowing the exploitation of lumber in protected areas.

At the beginning of the month, Bolsonaro had already published a decree that allowed for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a method to extract oil and gas. Civil society organizations are asking the Environment workgroup of Lula’s transition team to revoke these and other decrees.