O PPCDQ-MA (Plano de Prevenção e Combate do Desmatamento e das Queimadas do Estado do Maranhão) dispõe sobre as diretrizes que norteiam as estratégias, metas e ações do Estado com o objetivo principal de reduzir o desmatamento e a degradação da vegetação nativa, bem como controlar as queimadas e os incêndios florestais, garantindo, assim, a conservação da biodiversidade e a manutenção dos serviços ecossistêmicos.
Commodity production in Brazil, it is not (all) about deforestation: combining zero deforestation and zero illegality
Commodity production in Brazil, it is not (all) about deforestation: combining zero deforestation and zero illegality
In the last eight years, we have seen a drastic reduction in deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon. The annual deforestation rate in 2014 (484.8 thousand ha) was 75% lower than the historical average between 1996 and 2005 (1.95 million ha). This reduction has...