Deforestation
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Tree loss and its effect to well-being, society, and energy are the inevitable results of rapid economic breakthroughs. Civilization has to constantly adapt to change, and while economic modifications commence society has to deal with... more
Brazil’s planned reconstruction of the BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway paralleling the Purus and Madeira rivers would give deforesters access to about half of what remains of the country’s Amazon forest, and so is perhaps the most... more
Field notes from Aarey forest in Mumbai, 18th May 2018.
In recent decades, climate change has been accelerated by anthropogenic activity and became a currently issue on global discussion. Due to the importance that Brazil has a global supplier of food, this article aims to verify the... more
Ferrante, L. & P.M. Fearnside. 2022. Countries should boycott Brazil over export-driven deforestation. Nature 601: 318:https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00094-7 [correspondence] Preprint
Fearnside, P.M. 2017. Brazil’s Politicians Unleash Illegal Loggers, Miners, and Land Thieves. Alert 18 June 2017.... more
Ferrante, L. & P.M. Fearnside. 2021. Brazil’s political upset threatens Amazonia. Science 371: 898-899. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg9786 Preprint
Networks of protected areas (PAs) form the backbone for biodiversity conservation worldwide. The effectiveness of protected areas has been studied and it has been shown that confounding factors, such as remoteness and accessibility ,... more
Understanding the effect of anthropogenic disturbance, and its interaction with carnivores and their prey, is crucial to support the conservation of threatened carnivores, particularly in rapidly changing landscapes. Based on systematic... more
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HIGHLIGHTS • Database attractiveness is independent of data quality. • Global forest products databases have different levels of quality. • Since many data users are not data professionals or statisticians, the quality of a database is... more
In 2019 Brazil recorded the highest wildland fire occurrence South America has seenfor the last 15 years. Added to the Amazon, the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado) faces changes in fire regimes. Climatic changes and the recent weakening of... more
The purpose of this study is to analyse the role of law enforcement on deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon in the last 10 years compared with the influence of economic and political factors. In order to achieve this, political... more
The role of different agroforestry systems in the conservation of plant diversity and forest structure has not been directly compared in many agricultural dominated landscapes. In this study, we investigated tree diversity and forest... more
Les forêts du monde jouent un rôle essentiel pour l’atténuation du changementclimatique, le maintien de la biodiversité terrestre et le cycle global de l’eau. Pourtant, leur protection ne fait l’objet d’aucune convention internationale... more
By reflecting on how agricultural development and conservation policies have greatly changed in focus, methods, goals and sensibility in the last decades, and through the analysis of the implementation of recent programme Sembrando Vida... more