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New Mato Grosso Law Permits Four-fold Increase in Logging without Tree Replacement

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In the Amazon state of Mato Grosso, each enterprise using wood as raw material will be allowed to extract up to 297,000 trees per year in the next few months without the need for forest replacement.

The amount is equivalent to 49,500 cubic meters of timber logs and concerns the product sold legally, not illegal deforestation. Previously, logging was limited to 12,000 cubic meters (or 72,000 trees).

Each cubic meter corresponds to about six trees. The law provides that the company using lumber as raw material must offset this extraction by planting . . .

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