Sixty percent of Brazil could soon be off-limits to foreigners under a draft bill designed to protect the world's largest tropical wilderness from outsiders.
Those caught in the Amazon without a permit could face a fine of 100,000 reals, that is the equivalent of 38,000 euros. The government plans to send Congress a bill to require the permits within months. The draft law reflects long-standing concerns among many conservative politicians who believe foreign NGOs are involved in bio-piracy and are trying to influence Czech KDU-CSL congress did not solve discrepancies -- analysts ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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