Brazilian Forest Code

Then President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva however, delayed this until the post election period in 2011, though Presidential Decree number 7029.

[1] On 28 February 2018, Supreme Federal Court upheld forestry law changes which comes as a blow to environmentalists trying to protect the world's largest rain forest.

It passed both houses of the Parliament of Brazil, but former president Dilma Rousseff vetoed some of its proportions.

[4] Environmentalists were opposed to the law, and said it would to further destruction of the Amazon rainforest,[4] and would have opened areas logged illegally before July 2008 for farming.

[4] The Catholic Church urged Rousseff to completely veto the bill,[5] and Avaaz, a global activist group, collected two million signatures opposing the legislation.