Brazil’s Amazon region is undergoing a period of environmental setback, during which large infrastructure projects are being pushed forward and environmental protection is being reduced. One of these projects is the reopening of Highway BR-319, which was built in...

Here we report that protected areas in the Amazon basin—the central feature of prevailing conservation approaches—are an important but insufficient component of this strategy, based on policysensitive simulations of future deforestation.

O Programa Bolsa Verde (PBV) surgiu em 2011 como uma das estratégias para aumentar a renda das famílias em estado de extrema pobreza vivendo em áreas de alta relevância para a conservação. Nos seus quase sete anos de existência, esse programa atingiu cerca de 47,4...