Sustainably managing the Amazon region is essential to mitigating global climate change and to preserving the biological and cultural diversity of the region. After promising reductions in degradation in the 2010s, a return to historically high levels of land conversion and deforestation during the past 5 years has severely undermined these goals. This land conversion — primarily the result of logging, mining and ranching — has generated social, economic and environmental burdens across scales1. Encouragingly, signs of recovery towards Amazon protection are appearing under Brazil’s current federal administration. But amid the drop in deforestation, a new threat is on the rise: uncontrolled fires.
Terras indígenas na Amazônia brasileira: do orçamento à mitigação da mudança climática
Terras indígenas na Amazônia brasileira: do orçamento à mitigação da mudança climática
Na Amazônia brasileira, os povos indígenas detêm uma parcela significativa das florestas da região. O conjunto de suas Terras cobre cerca de 110 milhões de hectares e agrega aproximadamente 30% do carbono florestal da região, o que corresponde a algo por volta de...