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h) to make feasible and to organise the establishment of
ecological corridors at the national and transboundary
level.
i) to intensify the sanitary control of legally imported
species, as well as those involuntarily entering the
country.
j) to intensify the control and erradication of exotic
species that may jeopardise the balance and survival
of native species.
e) to improve inspection and control of wood logging,
transportation and processing.
f) to increase inspection in illegal selective logging areas
to prevent deforestation.
g) to develop forest exploitation technologies, avoiding
loss of vegetable biomass.
h) to reorganise quality certification mechanisms, aimed
at increasing the access of logging companies.
recommendations
k) to introduce the protection and reforesting of riverbank
vegetation.
l) to support and encourage the research of less collected
species, such as insects, for example, which are
important seed spreading agents and effectively
contribute to maintaining ecosystems.
i) to integrate the agricultural policy to the forest policy
seeking to promote new settlements only in already
degraded areas.
j) to make possible the implementation of economic
tools allowing the increase of planted forest areas as a
substitute for native forests.
m) to encourage the development of biodiversity
inventories for ecosystems and biomes.
7. SOME global GUIDELINES
n) to increase the area of conservation units to 10 percent
of the Brazilian territory, specially areas recognised as
endemic hubs.
o) to consolidate the conservation units which were
already created and to implement management plans
in the federal, state and municipal units.
p) to establish Environmental Awareness programmes
aimed at the conservation of biodiversity.
Recommendations for Forests
a) to improve the control of wood coming from forest
management plans authorised both nationally and
internationally.
b) to encourage the productive sector to use alternative
wood to reduce the pressure on overexploited highquality
species such as mahogany, virola, ipe wood,
imbuia and peroba.
The international discussions that precede The Rio+10
Conference focus on poverty relief as the main topic.
However, the examination of structural causes would
complementarily demand, “wealth relief ”, in other words,
the effects of excessive consumption of the rich over the
poor (Ecological JB, “JB Ecológico” 06/29/2002, p.11). In
that sense, facing the global challenge, as previously
mentioned, demands the construction of an international
consensus on some fundamental issues defined locally
and regionally. This construction has been gradually
accomplished through efforts such as the one undertaken
by the Forum of Environmental Ministers of Latin America
and the Caribbean. In the seventh meeting of the
Intersectorial Committee from the mentioned Forum, held
in São Paulo between May 15 and 17 of the current year,
those Ministers approved the “Latin America and the
Caribbean Initiative for Sustainable Development”
document, considering some fundamental issues, among
which we may point out the ones presented below.
c) to encourage the good use of biomass for the
generation of energy from forest exploitation residues.
d) to encourage alternative energy sources to eliminate
the use of firewood from Caatinga native vegetation.
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