Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs
A quarter of the deforested Amazon has regrown as secondary tropical forest and yet the climatic importance of these complex regenerating landscapes is only beginning to be recognised. Advances in satellite remote-sensing have transformed our ability to detect and...
Moving Toward Sustainability in the Local Management of Floodplain Lake Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon
Local management systems are generally regarded as traditional systems developed over generations. However, in the Brazilian Amazon, as in many other regions, community or collective management is a response to more recent changes in the exploitation of local...
Influence of leaf-cutting ant nests on secondary forest growth and soil properties in Amazonia
Leaf‐cutting ants (Atta spp.) often increase in abundance following deforestation and may have an important effect on forest succession on abandoned land. In this study, we evaluated the effects of leaf‐cutting ant (Atta sexdens) activity on physical and chemical...
A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon?
In their Policy Forum "National forests in the Amazon” (30 Aug., p. 1478), A. Veríssimo et al. seem assured that a new system of national forests will solve the problems of uncontrolled forest exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon. Unfortunately, we are far less...
A Amazônia será ocupada
A revista Veja publicou entrevista realizada com o pesquisador associado do WHRC, David McGrath, que fala sobre sobre a ação do homem no ambiente amazônico.
Florestas Familiares: Um pacto sócio-ambiental entre a indústria madeireira e a agricultura familiar na Amazônia
O objetivo deste relatório é analisar as perspectivas para a governança da indústria madeireira na Amazônia.
Mobilização Social e Encontros Regionais BR-163 e Xingu
Este documento contém uma breve descrição, assim como o documento final de cada um dos quatro encontros.