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...
by Camila Santana | 01/03/2024 | News
By Camila Santana* One of the world’s most active agricultural frontiers, the transition zone between the Cerrado and the Amazon, has been characterized by the intensification of pastures and their replacement by mechanized production of crops such as soy,...
by Luiza Melo | 22/02/2024 | News
The Amazon accounts for 57% of all the country’s Legal Reserve liabilities, a category that represents the minimum amount of vegetation required by law on private rural properties. This is shown by the updated data available on the Forest Code Thermometer, a...
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...
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...
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...
by Bibiana Garrido | 18/01/2024 | News
By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* Leaders from 62 indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon, representing the nine states of the region, took part in the “Course on Climate Change, Carbon and REDD+ in the Indigenous Amazon” and are now multipliers of the...
by Bibiana Garrido | 08/01/2024 | News
By Bibiana Alcântara Garrido* In an article published in the newspaper O Globo on Saturday, 6, IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) defends economic compensation for Amapá and Pará to stop moving forward with oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon basin....
by Sara Leal | 21/12/2023 | Note
The Brazil Climate, Forests and Agriculture Coalition called on members of the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday (21) to extend the vote on the substitute for Bill 412/2022 (attached to Bill 2.148/2015), which regulates the SBCE (Brazilian Emissions Trading System)....
