O Observatório do Código Florestal aspira com este guia contribuir com os poderes públicos estaduais e do Distrito Federal na regulamentação do novo Código Florestal, sintetizando os elementos relevantes para a implantação dos Programas de Regularização Ambiental, com segurança jurídica e maior eficiência ambiental.
Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire
Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire
Amazonian deforestation rates are used to determine human effects on the global carbon cycle and to measure Brazil's progress in curbing forest impoverishment. But this widely used measure of tropical land use tells only part of the story. Here we present field surveys of wood mills and forest burning across Brazilian Amazonia which show that logging crews severely damage 10,000 to 15,000 km2 yr−1 of forest that are not included in deforestation mapping programmes.