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Brazil bans Amazon mahogany logging for 2 years
Brazil placed a two-year ban Tuesday on mahogany logging in much of the =
Amazon, a move environmentalists welcomed as a step toward controlling =
deforestation. A decree published in the government gazette said the ban =
did not apply to sustainable management areas approved before July 1996 =
nor to planted forests. It added that the environment ministry and the =
government's Environment Institute would announce within 90 days new =
rules for sustainable logging of the virola tree in the Amazon region. =
Environmental group Greenpeace said the decision was a step in the right =
direction, extending and tightening a 1996 moratorium on new permits for =
logging mahogany
see www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=3D2555290058-c2e=20
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