Brazil's government will launch a social program to pay additional grants to poor families that work in forest protection, environment minister Marina Silva said on Monday, in a bid to boost protection of the Amazon rainforest.
The program, called Bolsa Verde, would be initially implemented across Brazil's Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, but Silva said the government intends to expand it to the country's other biomes, which include the Atlantic Forest and tropical Cerrado savanna.
It is unclear when the program, which will initially issue payments to 30,000 families, will be launched. Brazilian far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 had suspended a similar program. "Worldwide, 80% of protected forests are under the control of these traditional communities," Silva told reporters, saying that people would be paid for their services in protecting the environment.to meet a pledge to eliminate Amazon deforestation by 2030, by strengthening law enforcement against environmental crimes amid other measures.
Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Writing by Carolina Pulice; Editing by Sarah Morland and Leslie Adler
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