Some doubts about concessions in Brazil

zweede@fft.org.br THE government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil inherited, in its National Forest Program, a formidable proposal to increase the area designated to national forests (s) in the Amazon from eight to  million hectares by the year . is objective is an ambitious and worthy conservation goal, and one that appears to be holding approval, give or take a few million hectares, within the new government. Attached to this plan, however, is a lingering desire to allow private timber harvesting on s through a system of forest concessions.