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Deforestation in Brazil
According to the Brazilian Space and Research Institute, 9,001 square kilometres were deforested in the Amazon last year, an area the size of ...
Amazon Forest Code | The Nature Conservancy
In 1965, Brazil created and passed its first Forest Code, a law requiring landowners in the Amazon to maintain 35 to 80 percent of their property under native ...
In Brazil's Amazon rainforest, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets ...
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
The author's research is supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq: Proc. 304020/2010-9; 573810/2008-7)
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon is on the rise, with a sharp increase in 2016. As powerful economic forces push for development, the government must take ...
Deforestation in Brazil - statistics & facts - Statista
In 2023, total deforestation in the South American country stood at 1.8 million hectares, a decrease of 11.6 percent compared to the previous ...
Deforestation in Brazil's vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached ...
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and ...
Abstract: Brazil's Amazon forest remained largely intact until the “modern” era of deforestation began with the inauguration of the Transamazon Highway in ...
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest could reduce Brazil's power generation capacity and the profitability of the electricity sector by up to ...
In the early 2000s, deforestation increased sharply in the Brazilian Amazon, jeopardizing the tropical rain forest's critical role in mitigating global ...
PSB et al. v. Brazil (on deforestation and human rights)
Brazil's failure to curb deforestation and resulting climate change violates fundamental constitutional rights of indigenous peoples and current and future ...
The devastation in the Brazilian Amazon has been running at its fastest pace in 10 years. Only in July, 2,095 km² was deforested, 80% more than in the same ...
Drivers of Deforestation - Our World in Data
One-third of tropical deforestation happened in Brazil. That was 1.7 million hectares each year. The other single country where large forest areas are lost is ...
Brazil's deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse - Science
A: Deforestation has risen since 2012 due the continual increase in forces driving forest loss, such as more roads giving access to the forest, an increasing ...
Deforestation - Survival International
The Amazon is being deforested at a rate of 22 square kilometers every day. Under President Jair Bolsonaro, it's set to get a whole lot worse.
The impacts of deforestation include loss of biodiversity, reduced water cycling (and rainfall), and contributions to global warming.
Deforestation in Brazil's vast savannah, known as the Cerrado, decreased by 25.7%, the first decline in five years. The area destroyed reached ...
Brazil's Success in Reducing Deforestation
global warming emissions in the United States have flagged, one tropical developing nation,. Brazil, has made dramatic strides—without receiving much ...
Deforestation is especially prevalent in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. In Brazil, deforestation is largely driven by human activity, ...
Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing ...
The high rates of deforestation on these properties stem from low income; a lack of basic infrastructure and institutional support; and poor access to technical ...
Deforestation in Brazil
Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world and in 2005 still had the largest area of forest removed annually. Since 1970, over 700,000 square kilometres of the Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.