Impacts of fire on canopy structure and its resilience depend on successional stage in Amazonian secondary forests
Secondary forests in the Amazon are important carbon sinks, biodiversity reser-voirs, and connections between forest fragments. However, their regrowth ishighly threatened by fire. Using airborne laser scanning (ALS), surveyedbetween 2016 and 2018, we analyzed...
Amazônia em Pauta 3: Rural Environment Registry (CAR) and its influence on the dynamics of deforestation in the Legal Amazon
On May 25th, 2012, after almost two years of discussions in Congress, a new version of the Brazilian Forest Code was approved (Law 12.651/2012). The new law reaffirmed important norms for forest conservation in all the Brazilian biomes. It also established...
Amazônia em Pauta 3: Cadastro Ambiental Rural e sua influência na dinâmica do desmatamento na Amazônia Legal
A terceira edição do boletim Amazônia em Pauta analisa como a dinâmica de desmatamento nos Estados de Mato Grosso e Pará, entre os anos 2008 e 2012, foi afetada pela implementação do Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR).
InfoPAS 3: 2014 – Ano Internacional da Agricultura Familiar
InfoPAS - Número 3 - Ano 2 - Informativo do Projeto Assentamentos Sustentáveis na Amazônia (PAS). Brasília. 2013.
Cracking Brazil’s Forest Code
Roughly 53% of Brazil's native vegetation occurs on private properties. Native forests and savannahs on these lands store 105 ± 21 GtCO2e (billion tons of CO2 equivalents) and play a vital role in maintaining a broad range of ecosystem services (1). Sound...
Cracking Brazil's Forest Code
Roughly 53% of Brazil's native vegetation occurs on private properties. Native forests and savannahs on these lands store 105 ± 21 GtCO2e (billion tons of CO2 equivalents) and play a vital role in maintaining a broad range of ecosystem services (1). Sound...
Stimulating Interim Demand for REDD+ Emission Reductions: The Need for a Strategic Intervention from 2015 to 2020
About the Interim Forest Finance project (IFF) The Interim Forest Finance (IFF) project is a collaborative initiative of the Global Canopy Programme (GCP), the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), Fauna & Flora International (FFI), the UNEP Finance...