A Compensação pela Redução do Desmatamento Tropical na Convenção Quadro de Mudança Climática da ONU e os Povos da FlorestaCompensation for the Reduction of Tropical Deforestation at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Forest Peoples

In 2006 Brazil passed legislation allowing concessions for industrial timber harvest in public forests. This decision was part of a broader effort to control deforestation, which had spiked to its second highest level, of about 25,000 km2, in 2004. Specifically,...

Surface fires burn extensive areas of tropical forests each year, altering resource availability, biotic interactions, and, ultimately, plant diversity. In transitional forest between the Brazilian cerrado (savanna) and high stature Amazon forest, we took advantage...