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Date of Publication: February 28
Year of Publication: 2020
Publication City: Washington, DC
Publisher: AAAS
Author(s): Renata Ruaro, William Laurance, Roger Paulo Mormul
Journal: Science
Volume: 367:990
Brazilian national parks could be seriously threatened if pending legislation [draft bills 984/2019 (1) and 61/2013 (2)] is approved. These two bills aim to change the federal law [9.985/2000 (3)] that created Brazil’s national system of conservation units and instead create a new category of conservation unit called “park-road.” Beyond this, the bills would reopen the Colono Road, an 18-km-long road closed more than 30 years ago that bisects the famed Iguaçu National Park (4) and Brazil’s largest remnant of the Atlantic Rainforest, a global biodiversity hotspot (5).
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