Unable to control the occupation, to monitor activities and legal actions to combat illegal foreigners in the Amazon, the government intends to use this year to an initiative that threatens further sovereignty in the region: either sign the first contracts for granting the private initiative management and economic exploitation of forests. According to the director of the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB), Tasso Azevedo, 11 forests can be leased to businessmen or the use of local communities later this year, according to the rules of the Law of Public Management of Forests, approved last year. The forests are located in Para (10) and Rondonia. Causing interest in the private initiative. Azevedo says that representatives of the sectors of construction and cosmetic already reported to the Ministry of Environment the provision of dispute bids for the concessions. The two segments wants respectively, timber and oil. Moreover, private banks want to participate - directly or via the lending - of projects of "sustainable development". The possibility of business faces resistance in the academic and in Congress. The geographer Aziz Ab'Saber and the senators Mozarildo Cavalcanti (PTB-RR) and Geraldo Mesquita Junior (PMDB-AC) say that the government will contribute to the denationalisation of the Amazon to grant to private enterprise to manage forests. The financial gains achieved by entrepreneurs in contracts of up to 40 years, reinforce the critics, exceed national boundaries. -- It is the rent of forests. It is the first step to internationalize the Amazon, so legal - criticizes Cavalcanti. Leader of the PTB in the Senate, Cavalcanti says that the government has no structure to oversee what will be done in the areas under management of private initiative not know what are the real beneficiaries of economic exploitation. -- A Brazilian can be forehead-rail of a foreigner who comes to the Amazon to do research on biodiversity and pharmaceuticals. For Mesquita, the government runs the risk of contributing to the internationalization of the Amazon because it fell in the "pseudo-esparrela the vocation of the region to be providing the raw material crude." Elected on the same plate of the Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, Senator Mesquita says that the government should invest more in the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA). Transform it in a kind of Embrapa sustainable development. With researchers and scientists, the INPA conditions would have to explore the biodiversity and national pharmaceutical industry. -- Sustainable development will be the activity of local people as slave workers, claiming large corporations - accuses Mesquita. Azevedo claims that the law prevents the privatisation of national forests, to make clear that it can not be sold. So close, not open, gaps in the possession of the territory by foreigners. -- The law preservs the Brazilian heritage and create clear rules on how to use it. A report released by the NGO Friends of the Earth - Brazilian Amazon says that the World Bank (Bird) may be collaborating with the deforestation of the Amazon to fund projects on livestock in the region without carefully examining the effects they may have. "Organizations such as the