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
Land tenure regularization has declined in the Amazon
Since 2019 the number of definitive land titles issued outside rural settlements has fallen in the Legal Amazon.
Project harkens back to the historic Alliance of the Forest Peoples in the state of Acre
The partnership promotes the integrated management of nine indigenous lands and three extractive reserves to ensure sustainability and preserve the forest.
“The Javari Valley shows us how the words of a president can lead to an increase in crime”, says the indigenista Carlos Travassos
With 15 years of experience in defending isolated and recently contacted peoples, the geographer and indigenous agency worker – known as indigenistas in Brazil – tells us how he noticed the emergence of a sophisticated criminal structure after the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro at the place where Dom and Bruno were murdered.
Prodes and Deter: get to know these strategic systems in the fight against deforestation in the Amazon
The INPE programs are vital to keep the forest standing. While Prodes generates annual deforestation rates, Deter makes daily alerts to improve monitoring against tree cutting and fires.
Regulatory distortions cause medium and large producers to snatch most of the public resources in the Amazon
A study by PUC-Rio shows that the application of public funds in the rainforest has been distorted and currently benefits mostly large-scale industrial farming.
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
Illegal mining has been growing for 3 years inside an ecological station deep in the Amazon Rainforest
Official report identifies dredges and boats supporting the crimes at the Juami-Japurá Ecological Station, in the state of Amazonas. Impacts on the integral protection area have been growing since 2019.
Proposal to remove Mato Grosso from the Legal Amazon allows deforestation of an area the size of Pernambuco
The measure can expand forest losses by at least 100,000 km² in the state, according to an analysis by the Forest Code Observatory, and harm socio-environmental and economic agendas throughout the country.
The distribution of rainfall and droughts is changing in the Amazon Basin
Through satellite images, researchers shed light on the distribution and circulation of water and other environmental changes in the rainforest. Records help measure the impacts of deforestation, mining, and hydroelectric power in the largest river basin on the planet.
The Amazon’s most devastating January
Deter’s alerts recorded the largest deforestation in the forest since 2016. The destruction was concentrated in the states of Mato Grosso, Roraima, and Pará and advanced on areas in southern Amazonas and in the region around the BR-319 highway. Deforestation is fueled by a lack of oversight and is expected to grow this year.
Endangered Amazonian mangroves protect the climate, wildlife, and economies
The Amazon holds 80% of Brazil’s mangroves. A bridge between terrestrial and marine environments, mangrove formations guard stores of greenhouse gases, shelter unique species, and maintain human populations, but they are under threat.
PlenaMata is a dynamic platform that will include new content about the Brazilian Amazon, as well as widening its gaze to the other Pan-Amazon regions.
FORESTRY DASHBOARD
Data on deforestation provided in an up-to-date format and in context.
NEWS
Daily selection of news articles and studies, reports and opinion pieces on deforestation and conservation.
GLOSSARY
Technical terms explained with a simple click, in a quick summary or in full.
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