The Amazon basin contains the largest continuous area of tropical rainforests in the world, and has a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate1. Rates of tropical-rainforest deforestation and the impacts of fire and drought there are well established2,3. Less is known, however, about how these factors might interact to affect biodiversity, and about the role that forest policy and its enforcement have had over time. Writing in Nature, Feng et al.4 address these issues.
Plano de Desenvolvimento Territorial Integrado e Sustentável da Região de Influência da BR-163 – Carta de Santarém
Esta Carta apresenta o resultado de debates e propostas do Plano de Desenvolvimento Territorial Integrado e Sustentável da Região de Influência da BR-163, que abrange 84 municípios dos Estados do Pará e do Mato Grosso e envolve aproximadamente 2 milhões de habitantes.