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The award has two prizes: public - to be decided by direct vote on the internet
- and environmental activists and journalists will make a "critics' choice". The prizes will be given to the Brazilian
personality whose action or inaction were decisive in the incredible
levels of deforestation in the Amazon. The not-so-lucky
winner, announced on June 6th, will receive a statue made of illegally
logged wood.
The nominees are:
Blairo Maggi
Governor of the State of Mato Grosso, absolute champion of deforestation. (The state was responsible for 48 percent of the total Amazon destruction during 2003-04). Considered the "King of Soya", he longs for the presidency of Brazil. Author of the celebrated phrase, "This business of forests does not have a future". And, if it depends on him, it certainly won't.
Roberto Rodrigues
Minister of Agriculture in Brasilia and soy farmer in Maranhão, he is absolutely convinced that agribusiness is the salvation of farming. Refuses to recognise the relation between deforestation and the advance of agribusiness.
José Dirceu
First minister in line of command in the Lula Government and Chief of the Civil House. Co-ordinator of the "Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazônia" and greatly responsible for the lack of its implementation.
Luís Inácio Lula da Silva
President of the Republic of Brazil and ultimately responsible for its actions and inactions. Although he promotes a sustainable model for the Amazon, the protection of the environment in his government until now is considered a mere obstacle to economic development.
Antônio Palocci
Secretary of the Treasury and holder of the key to the safe. He compliments agribusiness and he applauds increases in exports while the government institutions and agencies who protect the environment receive less and less federal resources.
Simão Jatene
Governor of the State of Pará which has been historically the vice-leader in deforestation, but the winner of the prizes in the categories: violence and murders in the field, slave labour, illegal occupation of land and activities of inherent mismanagement in the process of deforestation.
The nominees are:
Blairo Maggi
Governor of the State of Mato Grosso, absolute champion of deforestation. (The state was responsible for 48 percent of the total Amazon destruction during 2003-04). Considered the "King of Soya", he longs for the presidency of Brazil. Author of the celebrated phrase, "This business of forests does not have a future". And, if it depends on him, it certainly won't.
Roberto Rodrigues
Minister of Agriculture in Brasilia and soy farmer in Maranhão, he is absolutely convinced that agribusiness is the salvation of farming. Refuses to recognise the relation between deforestation and the advance of agribusiness.
José Dirceu
First minister in line of command in the Lula Government and Chief of the Civil House. Co-ordinator of the "Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazônia" and greatly responsible for the lack of its implementation.
Luís Inácio Lula da Silva
President of the Republic of Brazil and ultimately responsible for its actions and inactions. Although he promotes a sustainable model for the Amazon, the protection of the environment in his government until now is considered a mere obstacle to economic development.
Antônio Palocci
Secretary of the Treasury and holder of the key to the safe. He compliments agribusiness and he applauds increases in exports while the government institutions and agencies who protect the environment receive less and less federal resources.
Simão Jatene
Governor of the State of Pará which has been historically the vice-leader in deforestation, but the winner of the prizes in the categories: violence and murders in the field, slave labour, illegal occupation of land and activities of inherent mismanagement in the process of deforestation.
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