The Increase in Deforestation in the Amazon in 2013: a point off the curve or out of control?

15 de agosto de 2013

ago 15, 2013

With the objective of reflecting on the causes that led to this deforestation and stimulating a reaction by the Brazilian Public Sector, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM), the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA) and the Institute of People and the Environment of the Amazon (IMAZON), present in this document their reflections on the increase in deforestation that occurred in 2013 and put forth a series of recommendations for moving forward with reductions in rates of forest destruction in the Amazon.

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