Critical areas for biodiversity are still outside protected areas

by Lucas Itaborahy | 07/03/2024 | News

By Lucas Guaraldo* A map developed by researchers from IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands shows that critical areas for biodiversity’s protection in the Legal Amazon are still outside...

Allocation of public areas is key to curbing deforestation and land grabbing

by Lucas Itaborahy | 21/02/2024 | News

By Lucas Guaraldo* In a meeting with Minister Marina Silva and officials from the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change and the Brazilian Ministry of Agrarian Development, local leaders presented material with the demands and experiences of...

Pastures were the areas most affected by fires in Brazil in 2023

by Lucas Itaborahy | 06/02/2024 | News

Lucas Guaraldo* Pastureland was the area most affected by fires and burn-offs in 2023, accounting for 28% of the entire burned area in the year, according to the Fire Monitor, an initiative of the MapBiomas Fogo network in partnership with and coordinated by IPAM...

Vital for preservation, CAR areas record 75% of Cerrado deforestation

by Lucas Itaborahy | 30/01/2024 | News

Lucas Guaraldo* Rural properties with a CAR (Brazilian Rural Environmental Registry) accounted for 75% of all deforestation alerts detected in the Cerrado in 2023, a loss of 879,000 hectares of native vegetation. The data was released on Tuesday by SAD Cerrado...

In the Amazon, a Public Area the Size of Uruguay is Threatened by Land Grabbing

by Lucas Itaborahy | 14/09/2023 | News

By Lays Ushirobira Land grabbing, one of the main causes of deforestation in the Amazon, has been advancing by leaps and bounds in recent years and the main instrument used to illegally appropriate public land is the fraudulent use of the Rural Environmental Registry...