Bolsonaro has amended the decree preventing controlled burning in fields | Chronic

A day after its publication in the Federal Gazette, the Brazilian government amended the decree banning the controlled burning of land throughout the country during the drought, to limit this ban to the legal region of the Amazon. , reported the newspaper O Globo.

With the change, published this Friday in the DOU, burning is still banned in the states Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantis, Maranhão and Mato Grosso, and is allowed in the rest of the country after agency authorization environmental

In the nine states of the Amazon region, which have attracted the attention of the international community in recent weeks, no controlled burning permit is allowed within 60 days.

In the rest of the states, fire can be used as a resource when it is essential for harvesting. According to the decree, national environmental agencies may refuse permits where the risks to life, environmental damage or adverse weather conditions are constant.

The suspension of the government remains inapplicable in three cases: when controlled fires were used "for phytosanitary control, with the authorization of the corresponding governmental body"; "for fire prevention and control practices" and "for subsistence farming practices practiced by traditional and indigenous peoples".