From the forest to the consumer - GVces - Fundação Getulio Vargas

of Acará, in the state of Pará.
The system showed that the electronic timber credits for the Fábrica Farm
management plan had been used up, but the on-site inspectors verified that
the forest had not been touched and not a single tree had been cut. A license
had been issued for 43 thousand cubic meters of logs and 64 thousand cubic
meters of residues for charcoal. Said volumes of material had been produced
in fact, but in a far away region that was not open for timber exploration. The
timber was “legalized” with the credits from Fábrica Farm. Third parties bought
the credits from Fábrica’s management plan holder – the person who submitted
the plan to environmental authorities.
The woman who received the fraudulent license and 32 companies that
bought timber credits from her ended up in court and may be forced to pay 100
million reais in reparation and to reforest an area of 2.6 thousand hectares. The
case, along with dozens other suits, is piled up on the desk of federal prosecutor
Bruno Valente. “The most common fraud no longer involves loads of timber,
Log production (million m 3 )
16,0
14,0
12,0
10,0
8,0
6,0
4,0
2,0
0,0
4,1
2,5
Amazon’s illegal logging in 2009
0,6
3,4
0,1
2,1
1,4
Pará Mato Grosso Rondônia Other States
(DOF)
Illegal production (2008–9) Legal production (2008–9)
4,7
9,4
Amazon
Source: Imazon/2010
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