The law allows Alckmin to privatize even non-existent forest areas.

Cida de Oliveira, from Rebuildables - The Official Gazette of São Paulo published on Thursday, the 30th, the sanction by Governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) of the Law 16.260, of 29/6/2016The law authorizes the state to grant 25 forest areas throughout the state to business conglomerates.

The state Secretary for the Environment, Patrícia Iglecias, even highlighted "the importance of enabling the concessions, which could bring more quality to the services provided and more efficiency in the exploitation of timber and forest products."

However, among the 25 areas listed in the law, there is one that does not exist: the São Paulo core of the Serra do Mar State Park.

Since Friday (24), the report of Rebuildables We are awaiting information regarding the full name of the area, as well as its location, precisely because the core area is not listed in... maps or list of state conservation unitsThe main question is whether the state could include another area in that location.

Informally, the press office of the secretariat admitted the error in the law, as well as efforts that the government had made to correct the text of the bill (PL 249/13), approved in the Legislative Assembly on the 7th. But so far it has not issued an official statement on the matter.

Faced with questions regarding the possibility of annulling a law approved with this error, the report sought comment from the president of the Environment Committee of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Roberto Trípoli (PV), as well as the Special Action Group for the Defense of the Environment (Gaema) of the State Public Prosecutor's Office. No one had been located by the time this article was published.