by Anna Rodrigues | 02/06/2025 | News
Anna Júlia Lopes* A new quarterly bulletin from the Public Forests Observatory, to be released next Thursday (June 5), World Environment Day, shows that 32.7 million hectares of unallocated public forests (FPNDs) are at risk of land grabbing due to overlapping records...
by Sara Leal | 02/06/2025 | News
By Sara Leal* Sign up for IPAM’s free newsletter to receive content like this in your e-mail. It was in Brasilândia, on the northern outskirts of São Paulo, that one of today’s best-known climate activists was born. At the age of 28, Amanda Costa is a...
by Bibiana Garrido | 30/05/2025 | News
By Nikole Cantoara* IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) organized joint efforts in the municipalities of Altamira, Senador José Porfírio, Brasil Novo, Medicilândia and Pacajá, in the state of Pará, with the aim of issuing the CAF (National Family Farming...
by Maria Garcia | 29/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
Conserving the Amazon and the Cerrado goes far beyond preserving native vegetation. These spaces are home to people who have depended on natural resources for their livelihoods and those of others for decades or even centuries. IPAM has understood that conserving the...
by Bibiana Garrido | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
The 30th anniversary of IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) in 2025 marks a history of love for the Amazon and, more recently, for the Brazilian Cerrado. This history began in Belém, Pará, on May 29, 1995, with a group of researchers who wanted to put...
by Anna Rodrigues | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
Anna Júlia Lopes* The absence of effective public policies and adequate funding has limited the implementation of climate adaptation strategies in the Amazon. According to Patricia Pinho, Research Director at IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), this...
by Anna Rodrigues | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
Anna Júlia Lopes* Areas equivalent to twice the size of the state of São Paulo remain undefined in the Legal Amazon. These are the FPNDs (Public Non-Destined Forests), which total 56 million hectares and, according to IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute),...
by Sara Leal | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary, News
Sara Leal* In its 30 years, one of the main marks left by IPAM (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia) has been and continues to be the promotion of the development of a low carbon economy. The first step was to get closer to family production. It was identified...
by Bibiana Garrido | 28/05/2025 | IPAM 30th anniversary
The history of global climate conferences can be traced back to Eco-92, which took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and marked the first collective international effort to debate the climate change that scientists had already identified at the time. Brazil...
