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Deforestation falls but rise of wildfires continues degrading Brazilian Amazon forests.
- Source :
- Global Change Biology; Feb2024, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p1-3, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In 2023, Brazil achieved positive environmental strides in the Amazon, with a 22% reduction in deforestation rates and a 16% decline in total fire counts compared with 2022, attributed to renewed environmental policy implementation. However, despite progress, deforestation remains above the target, and forest wildfires in old‐growth Amazonian forests surged by 152% in 2023 versus 2022, threatening biodiversity and carbon stocks. The rise in fires poses challenges for traditional farmers, impacts urban areas' air quality, and necessitates urgent measures like enhanced firefighting capabilities and long‐term strategies for fire‐free production chains to protect the Amazonian standing forests—a global socio‐environmental asset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DEFORESTATION
FIREFIGHTING
WILDFIRES
AIR quality
CITIES & towns
ENVIRONMENTAL policy
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13541013
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Global Change Biology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175704010
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17202