# Rodrigo Zeidan on Deforestation and Biodiversity

Center for Sustainable Business

April 18, 2019 ![Rodrigo Zeidan](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/CSB%20Logo%20NewsEvents2_1.png?itok=1_fO9PWS) Rodrigo Zeidan, a Senior Research Scholar at CSB, has authored an article for Ecology and Evolution on the threat a new deforestation bill poses to biodiversity.

A quote from the article: "The bill to abolish Legal Reserves, which we dub the Deforestation Bill, is a threat to biodiversity as it does not replace the legal reserve with any alternative mechanism; it simply allows farmers to exploit even more massively the lands of Brazil, and more worryingly, the threatened habitats at Amazonia and Cerrado."

[To read more, click here.](https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/171053-rodrigo-zeidan/posts/48131-the-deforestation-bill-as-a-threat-to-biodiversity)