@article{Ribeiro_Vicente_Arrolho_Fearnside_2022, title={Amazon deforestation restrictions likely to be circumvented}, volume={153}, url={https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/621}, DOI={10.12854/erde-2022-621}, abstractNote={<p>Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso is part of the “Legal Amazon” region where deforestation is limited by a requirement in the country’s Forest Code, which specifies that 80% of each property must be maintained in native vegetation in areas that were originally Amazon Forest and 35% in areas that were originally <em>Cerrado </em>(central Brazilian savanna). A new bill (PL 377/2022) that is rapidly advancing in the National Congress would remove Mato Grosso from the Legal Amazon, reducing this requirement to 20% in both cases.</p>}, number={3}, journal={DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin}, author={Ribeiro, Ricardo da Silva and Vicente, Ricardo Eduardo and Arrolho, Solange and Fearnside, Philip M.}, year={2022}, month={Sep.}, pages={216–217} }