Land sector

Operation Green Brasil. Guarantee Law and Order Decree n. 9.985 of 23 August 2019. The Decree authorizes the use of the armed forces to guarantee law and order and for subsidiary actions in the border areas, indigenous lands, federal protected areas, and other areas of the Legal Amazon states that require preventive and suppressive actions against environmental crimes, and surveying and combating fire outbreaks. Operation was conducted from August 24th to October 24th 2019. After two months of the Operation 127 people were arrested, 23.000 cubic meters of wood and 26.000 liters of fuel, 178 vessels and 112 vehicles were seized. Also, 45 camps and 13 clandestine bridges were also destroyed.

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