See below for a way to support natural resource managers in Brazil, where the new government is eliminating their environmental agency and merging those functions into the agricultural agency. Not good news for the rainforest. (This is
from an international listserv for invasive species professionals.) Chrome automatically offered to translate the pages linked below for me. Thanks, Doug
Il giorno mer 31 ott 2018 alle 21:28 Sílvia R. Ziller <sziller@institutohorus.org.br> ha scritto:
Dear all,
First of all, I am sorry to post such a message, but this is directly related to loss of capacity on invasive species management in Brazil.
As you must have heard, times are hard in Brazil given the result of recent elections. The merging of the Ministry of Environment with the Ministry of Agriculture was announced yesterday, and has been a threat since the campaign. It means that much environmental protection will be lost, as this will greatly weaken the Ministry of Environment and increase destruction across the country and especially in the Amazon region. See the editorial in Nature magazine about this (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07236-w).
It will also harm the work on invasive species – a revised National Strategy and Action Plan were published a few months ago and implementation is barely beginning, backed by a GEF project. Unfortunately, there is no interest on the side of agriculture to pursue the IAS agenda.
There are two petitions in place gathering signatures against this merge.
Please sign – we need international pressure now, much of it, so please help us gather signatures as you manage.
https://www.change.org/p/não-à-fusão-do-ministério-do-meio-ambiente
https://peticaopublica.com.br/pview.aspx?pi=BR108740
Thank you very much.
Silvia
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Silvia R. Ziller
Founder and Executive Director
The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development
AC Baía Sul Caixa Postal 4543
Florianópolis – SC 88.047-971
Brazil