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Brazil has potential to merge ecology and economy," says Environment Minister.

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The Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva , said in an interview with the press that there was a dismantling in the environmental area, in the last four years, and that a great effort is being made to resume protection policies for the sector.

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She participated in the 13th Biennial of the National Union of Students , which this year takes place in Rio de Janeiro,

"In the environmental area we had a blackout, a dismantling, of four years. We are now making an effort, in a transversal way, to reestablish public policies and create others," she said.

She added that "Brazil has a great potential to merge economy and ecology in the same equation".

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Combat what should not be done, but put in place what can be done. Brazil, which is a forestry power, can also be a low-carbon agricultural power. To be a power in energy security, with the production of green hydrogen. We are capable of having a clean and diversified energy matrix", said the minister.

Marina also said that the federal government is taking several measures to protect indigenous peoples, especially the Yanomami, threatened by hunger and disease caused by illegal mining on their land.

"The government has already re-established the plan to prevent and control deforestation in the Brazilian biomes, starting, as a priority, in the Amazon and more focused on indigenous lands. We have three emblematic cases, which are the Yanomami, the Mundurukus, and the Kayapo people. But this reality extends to several states and regions in the Amazon. These are actions to combat criminality, to organize land and territory, so that Brazil can take possession of what is its own", she said.

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