well, that's not what the ibama officials themselves say. 0ne official quoted in a recent human rightsfires," one official in ibama said this — "they, that is the organised criminals doing the fire lighting, they believe they will be able to do whatever they want and they won't be able to have fines imposed on them or their equipment destroyed because of the weakness in our organisation." the weakness is true, but it didn't come from now. we have been facing the reduction of the workforce by 50% for the past couple of years. we also faced the reduction of fleet, the destruction of the buildings, the whole management process is being suffered by that, so it's not a question of being made on purpose or now, but is the whole process that is coming on. let me be very honest with you, minister salles. it looks, from your record, as though you don't really believe in increasing regulatory protections and law enforcement against those who are cutting down the forest. you said, in the financial times on the 23rd of august, "the solution to illegal logging in the amazon is to monetise it by ope

that is not what the ibama officials themselves say.cent human rights watch quoted report on what they called the mafia behind the fires, one ibama officials said they, the organised criminals doing they, the organised criminals doing the fire lighting, they believe they will be able to do whatever they wa nt will be able to do whatever they want and they won't have fines imposed upon them or their equipment destroyed because of the weakness in our organisation. the weakness is true but it didn't come from that. we have been facing the reduction of the work force by 50% for the past couple of years. we also face the reduction of lead, the destruction of the buildings, the whole management process is being suffered by that so it's not a question of being made on purpose for now but the whole process that is coming on. let me be very honest with you, minister salles, it looks from your record that you don't believe in increasing regulatory protections and law enforcement against those who are cutting down the forest. you said in the finan