User:SunnyBunny4/Marina Silva

The content of the article is a relevant and neutral description of Marina Silva and the accomplishments she has made. However, I find the section of her article dedicated to her environmental activism under-developed. While most of the article focuses on her political contribution throughout the years, there is a lack of description on the initiatives that she started to create change. If a description isn't added it might be helpful for a reader to be able to click on a link discussing these initiatives that is embedded in the article. Furthermore, some phrases are a little repetitive. Most statements seem to include a citations, yet most of them are news articles with biased headings. This article, luckily, is one that tackles the underrepresentation of a misrepresented subject, and the changes she is making. However, I think it would be helpful to read more about the changes she is making as the underrepresented subject, alongside the political accomplishments she made throughout her life. As an editor I would continue to develop this article by representing the changes that make her an important social figure in the climate justice movement. I would also look for more primary sources of information to include along with previous sources. While News articles are crucial to seeing the ways in which these figures are viewed, primary sources will be crucial to a deeper understanding of the subject at hand.

First Lula government
A member of the Workers' Party, Marina Silva was appointed Environment Minister by Lula in his first term.

Also in 2005, Silva established her main lines of action for the next two years: social participation, sustainable development, creation of a National Environmental System, and an Integrated Environmental Policy. As she said, "Our ministry is new. It's only 13 years old, and it needs to be rebuilt".

Effect
Deforestation decreased by 59% from 2004 to 2007, during which she implemented an integrated government policy. The policy, also known as, "The Action Plan For The Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon," simultaneously fostered sustainable development, favored territorial zoning, and attached greater value to standing forests. It also incorporated elements from international conventions and documents. "All of this demonstrates that, when there is integrated planning and effort, it is truly possible to change the picture," Silva said in a statement to the Embassy of Brazil in London.

In 2005, Silva was confronted by Paulo Adário, coordinator of Greenpeace Brazil, over her environmental actions during her tenure in the ministry. Since her tenure began, Silva, together with the Federal Police, the Brazilian Army and the Federal Highway Police, performed 32 operations against illegal deforestation in the Amazon. However, Adário claims that his organization monitors the Amazon region and that only one such operation was conducted in October 2004, in the town of Itaituba, Pará. According to him, even if the 32 operations had actually been carried out, they would represent only half of what was anticipated in the National Plan to Combat Deforestation.

Resignation
She remained in office until 2008 and received several criticisms from entrepreneurs (mainly related to agribusiness) on account of delays in granting permits for projects with large environmental impact. In early 2005, however, she stated that she would not give up upon facing challenges even if they were imposed by the government to which she belonged, like the controversy over the São Francisco River Diversion Project, and the building of the BR-163 highway through the rainforest: "I don't admit defeat, just challenges that must be overcome".

Silva resigned from the Lula government in May 2008. She was replaced by Carlos Minc. Silva cited "the growing resistance found by our team in important sectors of the government and society" as the reason for her resignation. Tension between her and the rest of the Lula administration increased when President Lula da Silva chose Minister of Strategic Affairs Roberto Mangabeira Unger to coordinate a sustainable development plan for the Amazon, instead of her. She had become increasingly isolated in Lula da Silva's government due to her views against hydroelectric dams, biofuels, and genetically modified crops.