An official document accessed by the Congresso em Foco website, if according to an IBAMA server, the reinforcements that the Federal Government sent to contain the Amazon fires refused to cooperate in at least three operations, as they could result in the destruction of illegal prospectors or loggers' machinery.
Following the worldwide repercussion of the Amazon fires and destruction, Jair Bolsonaro's government decided to send more than 7,000 troops to the region. However, according to the document to which the site had access, this effective can not always be used to combat one of the main causes of fires: mining and illegal logging.
The current government's relationship with woodworkers and prospectors is dubious. Earlier this month, to get an idea, according to the website Revista Fórum, the Environment Minister Ricardo Salles put in command of IBAMA (Brazilian environmental police) in Ceará, Colonel Ricardo Célio Chagas Bezerra, a ruralist known for extracting wood from the Amazon. Chagas owns a logging farm in Altamira (PA), a region where "Fire Day" was triggered by ruralists who set fire to the forest in 2019.
Last Friday, an environmental enforcement operation seized six trucks loaded with illegal timber in Tucuruí, Pará. According to the state government in northern Brazil, the cargo may have been removed from the Tucuruí Lake Mosaic, a protected area managed by Ideflor-Bio.
Among the deforested species are castanheiras, maçarandubas, amapás, guajarás e angelins vermelhos.
In Mato Grosso do Sul, the Environmental Military Police (PMA) issued R$ 12,700 in fines for environmental crimes in just 24 hours.
