by Cristina Amorim | 03/12/2020 | News
Preliminary data for the annual Prodes system disclosed today by Vice President Hamilton Mourão show that, for the third consecutive year, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has grown in relation to the previous year; it is the highest increase ever recorded in...
by Cristina Amorim | 06/10/2020 | News
Rural agricultural producers in the Brazilian Amazon are getting paid to preserve forests that could be legally deforested inside their farms. The Conserv initiative will be launched tomorrow (10/7) in Brasília by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM),...
by Sara Leal | 22/09/2020 | News
By Sara R. Leal¹ With the intent of aiding indigenous people in the Legal Amazon in facing the novel coronavirus, the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) and the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) launched on...
by Sara Leal | 22/09/2020 | News
The Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna region, lost 28 million hectares of native vegetation, an area equivalent to Ecuador, between 1985 and 2019. That’s one third of all native vegetation that Brazil lost in the period. This area represents, in 35 years, a net...
by Cristina Amorim | 26/08/2020 | News
Fires resulting from unchecked deforestation are poisoning the air millions of people breathe, affecting health throughout the Brazilian Amazon, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS), and Human Rights Watch...
by Cristina Amorim | 01/07/2020 | News
A new paper published in June in the journal “Land Use Policy” maps land grabbing in undesignated public forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Of the 49.8 million hectares of forests under state and federal responsibility, but not yet allocated to any use category, 11.6...
