by Cristina Amorim | 17/12/2020 | News
Deforestation in non-reserved public forests of the Amazon grew 50% during the last two years compared to the previous five years: from 112.8 thousand hectares deforested, on average from 2014 to 2018, the area felled there grew to 215.6 thousand ha in 2019 and 226.5...
by Cristina Amorim | 04/12/2020 | News
In the past 20 years, 1.5 million square kilometers of Brazil, or about 17.5% of its territory, have burned at least once. It is almost the entire Northeast region. When it caught fire, most of the area, 68%, was covered with native vegetation, while 32% was used for...
by Cristina Amorim | 03/12/2020 | News
Preliminary data for the annual Prodes system disclosed today by Vice President Hamilton Mourão show that, for the third consecutive year, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has grown in relation to the previous year; it is the highest increase ever recorded in...
by Cristina Amorim | 06/10/2020 | News
Rural agricultural producers in the Brazilian Amazon are getting paid to preserve forests that could be legally deforested inside their farms. The Conserv initiative will be launched tomorrow (10/7) in Brasília by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM),...
by Sara Leal | 22/09/2020 | News
By Sara R. Leal¹ With the intent of aiding indigenous people in the Legal Amazon in facing the novel coronavirus, the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) and the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) launched on...
by Sara Leal | 22/09/2020 | News
The Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna region, lost 28 million hectares of native vegetation, an area equivalent to Ecuador, between 1985 and 2019. That’s one third of all native vegetation that Brazil lost in the period. This area represents, in 35 years, a net...
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 | Note
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...
