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By Raymond Colitt
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's environment minister, hailed
as a champion of the green movement but scorned by powerful
farming groups, resigned on Tuesday after losing key battles
in her efforts to protect the Amazon rain forest.
Marina Silva's resignation is likely to reinforce the view
that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is more concerned
with economic development than conservation as a commodities
export boom fuels Brazil's growth.
It could also be a setback for Brazil's ambitions to become
a major voice in global environmental debates.
"Her resignation is a disaster for the Lula administration.
If the government had any global credibility in environmental
issues, it was because of minister Marina," said Jose Maria
Cardoso da Silva, environmental group Conservation International's
vice president for South America.
Silva said in her resignation letter that she stepped down
because of the "difficulty she had been having for some time
in carrying out the national environment agenda," a presidential
spokesman said.
Farming leaders welcomed the resignation of the former rubber
tapper and leftist activist.
"I hope the next minister is not as radical as Marina. She was
an obstacle to economic development in Brazil," said Rui Prado,
head of the agriculture federation of Mato Grosso, a big farming
state.
Silva unsuccessfully opposed several infrastructure projects in
the rain forest, including two hydroelectric dams and a road that
will link the western grain belt with the Amazon River.
Among Silva's possible successors is Carlos Minc, Rio de Janeiro
state's environment secretary and a founder of the Green Party in
Brazil, local media reported. The presidential spokesman could not
confirm his appointment.
The soft-spoken Silva has been ill for years with tropical diseases
and metal poisoning.
She was frequently at odds with other Cabinet members and Lula, who
she felt were more concerned with job growth and conquering foreign
markets than with protecting the environment.
AMAZON'S DESTRUCTION
Growing global demand for Brazilian commodities such as soybeans has
helped accelerate destruction of the world's largest rain forest, and
Silva blamed cattle ranchers and farmers who have pushed deeper into
the forest in search of land.
Lula publicly rebuffed her and named Roberto Mangabeira Unger, minister
for strategic issues, to oversee the implementation of a government
white paper on the Amazon.
At the presentation of the proposal last week, aides of Silva and Lula
clashed and publicly accused each other of incompetence.
Silva also lost out to big business interests when the government
authorized genetically modified grains and the construction of a
third nuclear power plant.
Marcelo Furtado, the campaign director for Greenpeace Brazil, said
the resignation was "disastrous" and blamed it on the government's
Amazon policy, pressure to ease environmental regulations on factories
and Unger's appointment.
"Although Lula has adopted the environmental talk, the practice is
development at whatever cost," Furtado said.
The Amazon basin covers half of Brazil and holds a fifth of the
world's fresh water, and 15 percent of all plant and animal
species on earth.
But illegal logging and mining are rife as well as legally
sanctioned felling, and swaths of land the size of U.S. states
have been deforested in recent years.
Between August and December 2007, an estimated 2,703 square
miles were chopped down, equivalent to two-thirds of the total
for the previous 12 months.
Silva was an admired figure in the global environmental community
and often wore ethnic-style clothing. Born to a humble family in
the Amazon state of Acre, she worked as a rubber tapper and a
maid before earning a university degree.
She worked closely with renowned activist Chico Mendes supporting
local communities against big farmers and loggers until his murder
by ranchers in 1988.