Were created three areas of Sustainable Use and two of Integral Protection. Thus, the government of Dilma Rousseff reaches 3.4 million hectares in protected areas.
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Brazil is scaling back its protected area network. What is the impact?
How much of Brazil’s rising deforestation rate in the Amazon is attributable to the legal process known as Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing and Degazettement (PADDD)?
Indigenous organizations defend rights of indigenous in voluntary isolation
The Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Eastern Peru makes a public complaint against the National Service of Protected Areas of Peru (SERNANP) for violations and breach of agreements.
Conservation giant puts $100M into Amazon protected areas
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has pledged another $100 million toward efforts to establish and support protected areas across the Andes-Amazon landscape.
Sci Dev Net: Protected jungles work better than expected
Results show that protected areas do fulfill their efforts to conserve nature. More analysis is needed to explain the lost species’ role.
Increase of 107% in oil exploration areas in the Bolivian Amazon
In 2012, the concession for the Bolivian Oilfield Company was 372,500 hectares, but a decree issued in 2015 extended the concession to 806,250 hectares.
In a month, illegal mining deforested 20 hectares in Tambopata Reserve, Peru
Through the use of satellite imagery, Monitoring Project of the Andean Amazon notices the increase in deforestation by illegal mining in this Peruvian reserve
New operation against illegal miners in the Tambopata Reserve, Peru
In an operation against illegal mining, members of the Navy of Peru intervened in areas of the Malinowski River in the Tambopata National Reserve in Madre de Dios.
Yaguas – Another big conservation opportunity for Peru
In 2016, there is the opportunity for another major conservation victory in Peru: creation of Yaguas National Park. Yaguas received Reserved Zone status in 2011 and is now awaiting its final designation.
Peruvian Amazon committed to private and community conservation
In the Amazon region there are about 14 Private Conservation Areas associated through Amazonas Biodiversity Conservation Initiatives Network .