Environmental public servants criticize Bolsonaro’s family project of a “Brazilian Cancun”

The National Association of Environmental Public Servants (Ascema) spoke out against the bill presented by senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the president’s older son, to create a tourism area in the southern coast of Rio de Janeiro. The project includes the revocation of the decree that creates Tamoios Ecological Station, a highly sensitive conservation unit in the region. Nicknamed “Brazilian Cancun”, by the president since last year, the area is currently protected by strict environmental laws. The environmental servants believe that the bill “threatens our environmental heritage and the life of many Brazilians”.