Policy in Brazil (2016-2019) threaten conservation of the Amazon rainforest

摘要

This article aims to analyze the influence of recent Brazilian political change demonstrating like the measures taken by former President Meichel Temer and those promised in presidential campaign by the current president Jair Bolsonaro threaten on the conservation of the Amazonian forest, both in the short and long term. In order to do so, it will be discussed the adoption of political instruments, which reduce investment in the Ministry of the Environment during a period of twenty years, making it difficult to supervise and monitor the entire Amazon forest. As a result, a debate will be presented in the current situation of the forest and the possibility of reconciling agricultural production with environmental preservation.