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CONSERV protects another 8,000 hectares of private property
The project exceeded its target and reached 32 contracts and 28,000 hectares of conserved native vegetation that could be legally deforested in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes.
About 17.5% of Brazil has burned at least once in the last 20 years
Most of the fire reaches native vegetation. The new data is part of MapBiomas Fogo, an initiative that consolidated information on the area burned each year, from 2000 to 2019.
Deforestation in the Amazon grows for the third consecutive year
30% of the deforestation took place in undesignated public forests, that is, public forestlands not allocated by the federal or state governments to a specific tenure.
Rural producers in Brazil are paid for conservation in the Amazon
The voluntary mechanism is focusing on areas at risk of deforestation, and it is based on periodic payments, with an initial USD 4.2 million investment in three years.
New app helps indigenous people stay protected from covid-19
App shows number of confirmed cases of the disease in cities close to the indigenous territories of the legal Amazon and facilitates collection of information about infections.
Cerrado loses nearly 30 million hectares of native vegetation in 35 years
The second largest biome in the country currently has 53.2% coverage of native vegetation, or 19% of what is recorded in this category across Brazil; the data are from MapBiomas.
New Report: Fires Affect Health of Thousands in the Brazilian Amazon
Researchers attribute 2,195 hospitalizations due to respiratory illness to the 2019 fires; nearly 500 involved infants under 1 year old, and more than 1,000 people over age 60.