As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

In the increasingly polarized international political arena, it has become difficult to find
common ground to solve Brazil's ongoing environmental crisis, which has global as well as …

Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil's new president) and “ruralists”(large landholders and their
representatives) have initiated a series of measures that threaten Amazonia's environment …

The Amazon forest carbon sink is declining, mainly as a result of land-use and climate
change,,–. Here we investigate how changes in law enforcement of environmental …

Between 2004 and 2012, multiple policies contributed to one of the great conservation
successes of the twenty-first century—an 84% decrease in the rate of Brazilian Amazon …

Mining poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to tropical forests worldwide. In
Brazil's Amazon, mining drives deforestation far beyond operational lease boundaries, yet …

Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard nature's diversity. In view of expanding
human land use, increasing climate change and unmet conservation targets, area-based …

Recent expansion of the scale of human activities poses severe threats to Earth's life-
support systems. Increasingly, protected areas (PAs) are expected to serve dual goals …

Originally conceived to conserve iconic landscapes and wildlife, protected areas are now
expected to achieve an increasingly diverse set of conservation, social and economic …