The federal government will resume the Bolsa Verde program, which made payments to families living in extractive reserve areas and traditional communities in the Amazon, as a way to encourage forest preservation and promote the regeneration of degraded areas. The announcement was made this Monday (5) by the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, during an event to celebrate World Environment Day, at the Planalto Palace. “These families will receive aid from the State as payment for the services they provide for the protection of the environment. Around 80% of the protected forests in the world are under the domain of these traditional communities. This has to do with the recognition of the role that these communities have to keep ecosystem services preserved,” the minister told reporters. Created in 2011 by the government of then President Dilma Rousseff, the Bolsa Verde provided for the granting, every three months, of R$ 300 to families in extreme poverty who lived in protection or reserve areas and who proved sustainable production. The program, however, was ended in 2017, during the government of Michel Temer, who succeeded Dilma Rousseff after the impeachment of 2016. The value and frequency of payments for the program that will be resumed were not detailed by Marina Silva, but, according to her, the initiative should cover, initially, around 30 thousand families. In the previous version of the program, payments reached more than 70,000 beneficiaries. The resource will also be paid to families that already receive other benefits, such as Bolsa Família. “This additionality has to do with what they do, a way of life that helps preserve Brazilian biomes”, explained the minister. The idea is that, later on, the program will include traditional communities that live in other biomes, such as the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest. Temporal framework Marina Silva also criticized the temporal framework thesis, approved by the Chamber of Deputies through Bill (PL) 490/2007, last week. The text provides that indigenous and traditional peoples will only have the right to the lands they occupied until October 5, 1988, the date of enactment of the Federal Constitution. The PL now goes to the Senate for analysis. In addition, the thesis will also be analyzed in a judgment by the Federal Supreme Court (STF), which will resume this week. For the minister, the text approved by the Chamber “constitutes a great injustice” against indigenous peoples. According to her, there is a contradiction in relation to those squatters who seek to regularize occupations and do not have temporal impediments such as those foreseen in the framework. “While those who occupied land until recently seek to regularize their areas, [submeter] those who have been here for thousands of years with the logic of being able to demarcate their lands that were only occupied until the 1988 Constitution. It is a great contradiction that I am absolutely sure that the wisdom, the sense of Justice of the Supreme Court will make this assessment and the necessary reparations, as he has done so many times, including in relation to the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land”, he argued. Xokleng, Kaingang and Guarani, and the ownership of part of the TI is questioned by the state attorney’s office. favor. The analysis was suspended in September 2021 after a request for a review by Minister Alexandre de Moraes. The Supreme Court’s decision will not only apply to that territory, but to all cases related to disputes involving indigenous areas. Restructuring MP Marina Silva also assessed that the withdrawal of assignments from her portfolio will not affect the government’s priorities. Last week, the National Congress approved the Provisional Measure (MP) that defined the administrative structure of the government. The final text removed several functions from the Environment and Climate Change (MMA) and also from the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (MPI). “President Lula’s commitment is that internally, in the government, [possamos] make every effort so that there is no prejudice to the implementation of its priorities”, she said to journalists. democracy, we accept the legitimate decisions” of the Legislative Power, but stressed that he does not agree with the measures, because they weaken a “robust environmental policy”. National Water Agency (ANA), which now controls the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development. Management and Innovation in Public Services. Water (Singreh). The three systems will now be under the responsibility of the Ministry of Cities. Finally, the final text also removed from the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples its main attribution, that of homologating lands of original peoples, returning it to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, as it was in previous governments.
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