Public forests of the Brazilian Legal Amazon and its 70 million hectares of undesignated forestlands (IPAM, with data from SFB, 2016).
Sensitive development could protect Amazonia instead of destroying it
After 40 years of government induced settlement of the Brazilian Amazon, the core of this region has experienced surprisingly little deforestation. The agriculture and ranching that cause deforestation depend upon reliable roads, which are concentrated along the...