by Sara Leal | 16/03/2026 | Conservation, News
Sara R. Leal* The Legal Amazon has 9 million hectares that can be legally deforested on private properties, according to analysis by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute). This area is equivalent to the size of the state of Santa Catarina. To curb legal...
by Sara Leal | 09/03/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
Sara Leal* An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering environmental issues, Paulina Chamorro leads Vozes do Planeta (Voices of the Planet), a pioneering podcast on environmental issues in Brazil. She is one of the founders of the...
by Sara Leal | 09/02/2026 | News, One and a Half Degrees
The couple Vanessa Moreira and Alessandro Tenório received an invaluable inheritance from their parents: the knowledge to carry on with efficient production that values and protects the property’s natural resources. Family farmers from Tomé-Açú, in Pará, have...
by Sara Leal | 02/02/2026 | News
By Tainá Andrade* The 17% cut in the budget for monitoring and preventing forest fires in 2026 is a warning sign, says the director of Science at IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), Ane Alencar. The researcher argues that the policy for combating and...
by Sara Leal | 18/12/2025 | News
By Sara Leal* CONSERV, a mechanism devised by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) that pays rural landowners to maintain surplus native vegetation, exceeded the target number of hectares protected in its second stage. More than 8,000 hectares, which could...
