Payment for environmental services (pes) as effective tool to applicability of brazilian forest code: a fought proposal to the bill no.1876/99. Reports from the experience of pioneer pes in londrina-pr

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to outline the main changes in the Draft Law. 1876/1999, pending in the House of Representatives that would repeal the Brazilian Forest Code (Law no. 4.771/1965). The diagnosis of the numerous dis- crepancies introduced by the substitution of law in relation to the forestry law in force allows consign the enormity of the damage that the country’s biodiversity will be exposed. In this scenario, the Payments for Environmental Services prove to be an effective means for protection of forest reserves and riparian vegetation of the country, since their implementation has helped to demystify the feasibility of environmental law. To do so, exposes himself to pioneering and fruitful of en- courage good farming practices from the remuneration for environmental services in Londrina, Parana, emphasizing together in the end, the crucial need for public policy and fostering to civil society so that there is full realization of the Forestry Code in force.