Undesignated areas in the Legal Amazon

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The Indigenous Committee on Climate Change (CIMC, in Portuguese) monitors national and international debates on climate change. It disseminates studies conducted by indigenous peoples on climate change to promote traditional knowledge. This newsletter aims to...

Fire, fragmentation, and windstorms: A recipe for tropical forest degradation

Widespread degradation of tropical forests is caused by a variety of disturbances that interact in ways that are not well understood. To explore potential synergies between edge effects, fire and windstorm damage as causes of Amazonian forest degradation, we quantified vegetation responses to a 30‐min, high‐intensity windstorm that in 2012, swept through a large‐scale fire experiment that borders an agricultural field. Our pre‐ and postwindstorm measurements include tree mortality rates and modes of death, above‐ground biomass, and airborne LiDAR‐based estimates of tree heights and canopy disturbance (i.e., number and size of gaps). The experimental area in the southeastern Amazonia includes three 50‐ha plots established in 2004 that were unburned (Control), burned annually (B1yr), or burned at 3‐year intervals (B3yr).

Interview about the EU-Mercosur Agreement with Kátia Penha (CONAQ – National Coordination of Quilombos Articulation)

Interview with Kátia Penha, member of CONAQ (National Coordination of Quilombos Articulation), about the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur.