“The Amazon-Cerrado transition zone is linked to our future”

by Bibiana Garrido | 08/09/2025 | News

Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, a researcher at IPAM, explains why transition zones are unique for science and advocates specific policies for these areas. The interview was published in the newsletter Um Grau e Meio, produced by IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da...

“In the Amazon, an area of forest the size of Bahia could disappear”

by Bibiana Garrido | 04/09/2025 | News

By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* On Thursday (4), the Chamber of Deputies’ Commission on the Amazon and Original and Traditional Peoples held a public hearing to debate undesignated public forests. These forests occupy 50.2 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon...

IPAM and China Jiliang University sign cooperation agreement

by Bibiana Garrido | 03/09/2025 | News

By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) and China Jiliang University signed a scientific cooperation agreement on Wednesday and launched the “Sino-Brazilian Sustainable Development Center” for the development of joint...

Without Soy Moratorium, market insecurity grows, says IPAM

by Bibiana Garrido | 19/08/2025 | Note

The suspension of the Soy Moratorium by the General Superintendence of Cade (Administrative Council for Economic Defense), announced on Monday night (18), represents a setback capable of creating insecurity in the already consolidated commodities market and causing...

IPAM hosts Chinese delegation in Belém with focus on COP30

by Bibiana Garrido | 14/08/2025 | News

IPAM (Amazonia Environmental Research Institute) welcomed a delegation from China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment to its office in Belém on Thursday 14th to discuss COP30 and partnerships. For Lucimar Souza, IPAM’s Director of Territorial...