The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by zoonotic SARS-CoV-2, has important links to
biodiversity loss and ecosystem health. These links range from anthropogenic activities …

Ongoing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the outcome of an explicit federal project to
occupy, integrate, and “modernize” the region. Although there have been isolated periods of …

The largest concentration of isolated indigenous peoples in the world is in the indigenous
lands of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. However, the right to self-isolation and the survival of …

Increased prices and political pressure are boosting illegal gold mining in the Brazilian
Amazon, threatening forests, indigenous people, and conservation of biodiversity in …

Mining on Indigenous lands affects people's well-being and the relationship between
themselves and their lands. Indigenous peoples' sociocultural and spiritual connections to …

Abstract The Brazilian Amazon rainforest deforestation rate increased by 34.1% between
2018 and 2019, reaching even protected areas, such as Indigenous Lands (ILs). In …

Conserving tropical forests is crucial for the environment and future of our climate. Tropical
rainforests worldwide, including the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA), offer exceptional …

Fish serves as the principal source of animal protein for the indigenous people of the
Amazon, ensuring their food and nutritional security. However, gold mining causes mercury …

The Amazonian indigenous peoples depend on natural resources to live, but human
activities' growing impacts threaten their health and livelihoods. Our objectives were to …

Growing demand for minerals is increasing pressure to open protected areas (PAs) for
mining. Here we develop spatially explicit models to compare impacts among five policy …