Legal reserve: how to transform excess vegetation into an environmental asset

The management of Legal Reserve (RL) in old farms in Brazil, especially in Mato Grosso, can go beyond simple legal compliance and become a source of economic value. In another episode of the "Agrarian Law" segment, the lawyer and professor of Environmental Law Pedro Puttini Mendes explains that the 2012 Forest Code recognizes the acquired environmental right (consolidated area), which allows many producers to maintain a percentage of Legal Reserve smaller than what is required today (which is 80% in the Legal Amazon). Even more important is the possibility of transforming the surplus of native vegetation into an environmental asset. The vegetation that exceeds the legal obligation from the time of occupation can be converted into Environmental Reserve Quotas (CRA), which can be commercialized or used to compensate for the RL deficit of third parties. Check it out: The right to maintain a smaller percentage of Legal Reserve (Article 68 of the Forest Code) is only valid if the owner ...