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 | 20/08/2020 | Opinion
The 10.424 Decree of July 15, 2020 prohibits the use of fire in both Amazon and the Pantanal for the next 120 days. As happened last year, it aims to reduce the impact of fire on these two biomes during the driest season. In 2019, after the fire in the Amazon Forest...
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,...
