Relatório “Seminário Técnico sobre o Cadastro Ambiental Rural”

Brazil nut collection is key to reconciling sustainable economic development with forest conservation in the Amazon. Whether the activity is profitable, however, remains uncertain due to the paucity of information on spatial distribution and productivity of trees...

Large-scale soy agriculture in the southern Brazilian Amazon now rivals deforestation for pasture as the region's predominant form of land use change. Such landscape-level change can have substantial consequences for local and regional hydrology, but these effects...

Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil's Congress and government over the country's core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff's political fortunes or Brazil's international reputation. Full...