The presence of livestock in riparian areas raises several questions about the conservation
and sustainable use of water resources and biodiversity in Brazil. Although the Native …

Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Neotropical mammal diversity is currently threatened by several chronic human-induced
pressures. We compiled 1,029 contemporary mammal assemblages surveyed across the …

Private lands are important for conservation worldwide, but knowledge about their
effectiveness is still insufficient. To help fill this important knowledge gap, we analyzed the …

Biodiversity inventories provide critical information on the ecology of natural ecosystems and
inform conservation planning at local to regional scales. Based on a systematic review, we …

The Amazon forest has a complex interaction with climate at different spatial and temporal
scales. This means that alterations in land use could modify the regional water cycle …

Large-scale land governance and environmental monitoring are huge challenges for
tropical countries with significant forest cover. In this discussion paper, we analyzed the …

This work aims to evaluate alternatives to conciliate economic growth and the Amazon
preservation. For this, we measured the economic costs to preserve the Brazilian Amazon by …

Most of the world's nations (around 130) have committed to reaching net‐zero carbon
dioxide or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, yet robust policies rarely underpin …

A governança ambiental é peça-chave para atingir a Agenda 2030 da Organização das
Nações Unidas (ONU). Este artigo explora o potencial do Brasil de aproximar-se dos …