This paper is to introduce all partners involved in the Unlocking Forest Finance project – UFF, the major facts in terms of economics, demographics, natural capital and public policy of Brazil and Mato Grosso region.
Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin
Here we report that protected areas in the Amazon basin—the central feature of prevailing conservation approaches—are an important but insufficient component of this strategy, based on policysensitive simulations of future deforestation.