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...
by Cristina Amorim | 08/06/2020 | News
A deforested area of at least 4,500 square kilometers in the Amazon is ready to burn. The result of the sum of what was felled in the first four months of last year—still not burned. This fallen vegetation on the ground can go up in smoke with the dry season that...
by Cristina Amorim | 24/04/2020 | News
Deforestation in 2020, in addition to vegetation that was felled in 2019 and did not burn, could fuel a new intense fire season in the Amazon, especially on public lands that are under the guardianship of the Union and States. In the first quarter of this year alone,...
