We must achieve sustainability in Brazil’s Amazon, not only for the hundreds of thousands of people that call it home, but for the immense amount of biodiversity that they help to preserve. But deforestation runs rampant, and it is only getting worse. “Deforestation in the first months of ...
But deforestation has increased in Brazil under Bolsonaro's rule. He has courted controversy during his presidency for encouraging activities like mining and agriculture in the Amazon and has been criticized for making effortsto pass laws that would allow commercial developments on protecte...
This article investigates how land users perceive laws restricting deforestation and forest degradation, notably Brazil's National Forest Code, and how legal meaning emerges as place specific to influence their legal compliance. Interviews were held with land users in Acre state, a municipality with ...
These increases are in part due to failures in deforestation control. Soybean planters, cattle ranchers, and timber merchants find ways to circumvent agreements and legislation. Here we explain some of the key problems with the implementation of the principal agreements and Brazilian laws that should...
Undesignated public lands are at high risk of future deforestation due the expansion of land speculation and cattle ranching (and later soy plantations) in frontier areas in Brazilian Amazonia. This risk is heightened by new laws that facilitate land grabbing. In 2009, Law 11,952 (Brazil, PR ...
The Brazilian Congress relaxed the country’s forest protections in 2012, and many Brazilian lawmakers are pushing to further relax environmental laws to promote development across the Amazon. Meanwhile, the country has been rocked by economic recession and ongoing political-corruption scandals. This ...
This article investigates how land users perceive laws restricting deforestation and forest degradation, notably Brazil's National Forest Code, and how legal meaning emerges as place specific to influence their legal compliance. Interviews were held with land users in Acre state, a municipality with hi...
Brazil once had the world's highest rate of deforestation. And while land is still being cleared at an alarming rate, the country has been successful in reducing its deforestation in recent decades. Continuing that trend will require continued government
Center for Remote Sensing, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Britaldo Soares-Filho Contributions Y.D. conceptualized the study, designed the methodology, curated the data, implemented the formal analysis, wrote and edited the original draft, and created visualizations. J.B...
“With our planet’s forests destroyed further every day, we cannot afford delays to much-needed environmental protection laws like the EU’s anti-deforestation legislation,” said said Giulia Bondi of the Global Witness group. . Officials from leading exporters of affected commodities _ incl...