Do chão ao céu, monitoramento territorial indígena e a primeira década da ferramenta SOMAI-ACI
A primeira edição do Boletim PROTEJA publicou dados do SOMAI-ACI sobre crimes ambientais em terras indígenas na Amazônia. Entre janeiro de 2021 e novembro de 2023, 761 atividades ilegais foram registradas em 46 terras indígenas, totalizando 33 milhões de hectares...
Forest Recovery Following Pasture Abandonment in Amazonia: Canopy Seasonality, Fire Resistance and Ants
Tropical forests are important regulators of the flux and storage of carbon, water, and energy in the Biosphere, and they are the habitat of more than three-fourths of the world’s plant and animal species. These ecosystems are also undergoing rapid...
Cattle production in Southern Amazonia: implications for land and water management
The expansion of cattle in central western Brazil has been under scrutiny because of the region's historic reliance on Amazon and Cerrado deforestation for cropland and pastureland expansion. In this study, we determined the volumetric water footprint (VWF) and the...