Joining forces for an end to deforestation in the Amazon
We mobilize people, businesses, institutions, and communities with a greater goal in mind: promoting forest conservation and ending deforestation in the Amazon. Here, you can find data, analyses, articles, and good initiatives related to this theme. A living forest is better for everyone.
Deforestation in the Legal Amazon in 2022
Trees cut down so far
Daily average
trees
hectares
Total deforested
30762
alerts
hectares
Evolution per period (deforested square kilometers)
FEATURED NEWS
‘FRUTUROS tempos amazônicos’ exhibition reveals the Amazon of yesterday, today and tomorrow
On display at the Museum do Amanhã, in Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition presents the complexity of this unique ecosystem that covers 60% of the brazilian territory, but is still unknown to many.
Forest crafts reach all of Brazil via e-commerce
The Jirau Project brings together indigenous and riverside people from Amazonas in the production of sustainable crafts and products with wood, vines, peels, and fruits that are sold throughout the country.
The Christmas combo of destruction: steal land and get a license to deforest
Pressure is mounting for a vote in the last weeks of 2021 on bills that weaken environmental licensing rules and legalize land grabbing.
Every person in three indigenous Munduruku villages in Pará is contaminated by mercury from wildcat mining
Studies by Fiocruz show that 60% of the indigenous people of the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land have this toxic metal in their bodies above the limit tolerated by the WHO. Mining in indigenous lands has grown by almost 500% in a decade.
Hunting, deforestation, and fire threaten jaguars in the world’s largest rainforest
The Federal Prosecutor’s Office wants harsher penalties for a gang that killed big cats in the state of Acre. No one has been arrested. In the Amazon, human action kills or displaces about 350 jaguars every year.
Deforestation in the Legal Amazon grows 22% in 2021, reaching the highest rate in 15 years
Prodes data are ready since October 27 but were only released this Wednesday. This rate is almost 22% higher than 2020, a record year. Amazonas jumps to second place in state-wide rankings.
Nearly 500 million trees cut down in the Brazilian Amazon in 2021
Forestry dashboard presented shows that more than 1 thousand trees were cut down per minute. The forest’s destruction interferes with the rainfall regime and increases greenhouse gas emissions.
LATEST NEWS
Eletrobras privatization could increase deforestation and emissions in Brazil
Estimates indicate greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector will grow by 33% if amendments included in the omnibus bill, known as “tortoises”,are approved along with the privatization of the company, which is responsible for almost a third of energy produced in the country.
Impact of Amazon degradation not accounted for in Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions
The country’s commitments to the United Nations do not take the increase in climate pollution caused by the destruction of the forest into account. Brazil broke a new deforestation record during COP26.
Explosive herd growth in the Amazon challenges Brazil’s cut in methane emissions
The regional herd has grown by almost 1000% since the 1970s and today represents over 40% of the total national amount. Brazil signed a commitment to reduce 30% of its greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade and will have to review its cattle husbandry practice in forest areas.
Indigenous peoples want to take part in the carbon market because of their role in preserving the Amazon
Leaders defend that part of the resources should guarantee and maintain their territories. The way that carbon markets will work will be defined until the end of COP26.
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