The Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics has announced that it will release new maps of the Amazon in 2009 which will be 20 times more precise than their previous maps first put together in the 70s and last updated in 2004. Currently they cover… 46% of Brazil’s territory or 4.2million km2. The aim will be to provide greater detail in the border region with the cerrado. The new maps hope to support the Central Bank’s decison to suspend rural credit going to those that do not comply with environmental regulations that came into effect 1 July.
2006 Amazon Greenpeace video:
