Government plans on regularizing rural properties in the Amazon based on satellite images

Tereza Cristina, Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, stated that her ministry will start a land regularization process in the Amazon via “remote monitoring and detection” systems. According to an article by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, this will happen based on satellite imagery. “We have people working in many regions of the nine Amazonian States, but we will start with three”, she said.

According to the newspaper Estado de São Paulo, the government will evaluate over 93,000 irregular properties, with an average size of 280 hectares.

The regularization is the vice president’s Mourão, head of the Amazon Council, bet to curb deforestation. His argument is that it’s hard to hold accountability when the landowner is unknown.