Sao Paulo, 21 September 1999 - Greenpeace welcomed the decision by the Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, to approve the regulation of the Environmental Crimes Law but demanded the government to take all the necessary efforts to enforce the Law.
"The regulation will have strong impacts on illegal logging activities in the Amazon," said Paulo Adario, Greenpeace Amazon Campaigner.
Greenpeace had called on the Civil House last Friday to regulate the Law by September 21, the Day of the Tree in Brazil. Greenpeace had also launched an Internet campaign to pressure the Civil House, who received hundreds of electronic protests.
