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Mapping Change in the Amazon: How Satellite Images are Halting Deforestation

Headquartered in Belém, Brazil, Imazon is a non-profit organization focused on promoting sustainable development in the Amazon rainforest. In 2013,…

25 de June de 2014

Brazil has lost 5.2 million hectares of Conservation Units

A recent study published in the journal Conservation Biology shows that between the years 1981 and 2012 , 93 changes…

22 de April de 2014

Global Forest Watch: Dynamic New Platform to Protect Forests Worldwide

The World Resources Institute (WRI), Google, and a group of more than 40 partners launched in February 20 the Global Forest Watch (GFW), a…

21 de February de 2014

The Increase in Deforestation in the Amazon in 2013: a point off the curve or out of control?

Environmental organizations analyze the increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013 and present recommendations to the Government for reversing…

17 de January de 2014

Raiders of the rainforest

(Reuters) Deforestation in the Amazon is rising once again as loggers and sawyers craft new ways to elude Brazil’senvironment police. Deforestation in the Amazon is…

17 de January de 2014

Illegal logging remains rampant in Brazil

(Mongabay) Illegal logging remains pervasive in the Brazilian state of Pará, finds an assessment released Monday by Imazon. (more…)

8 de November de 2013

Trees of knowledge

How Brazil is using education, technology and politics to save its rainforest (more…)

14 de September de 2013

Brazil data suggests spike in Amazon deforestation

(Reuters) - Preliminary data released Tuesday by Brazil's space agency suggests Amazon deforestation spiked by more than a third during…

11 de September de 2013

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Protect Areas? It consists of areas instituted by the Public Power for conservation purposes. These enhance the natural…

27 de August de 2013

About Forest Transparency

The objective of this project is to contribute towards reducing illegal deforestation in the Amazon through independent monitoring of deforestation…

27 de August de 2013