The dynamics of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon are complex. A growing debate considers the extent to which deforestation is a result of the expansion of the Brazilian soy industry. Most recent analyses suggest that deforestation is driven by the expansion of cattle ranching, rather than soy. Soy seems to be replacing previously deforested land and/or land previously under pasture. In thi...

The Brazilian Amazon occupies 5 million km and comprehends the largest preserved and continuous tropical rain forest in the world: a forested area of approximately 4 million km. In the last decades, the region has experimented intense transformation processes both in the physical and human aspects. Deforestation studies estimated a rate of 25 400 km of forest conversion for 2001 to 2002 period ...

Besides, Indonesia has significant gas and coal resources, indeed, has a lot of oil reserves, Indonesia has also the second largest tropical forest after Brazil and has about 144 million ha or around 10% of what remains of this resources (Trisasongko, 2002). Otherwise, Indonesian deforestation continues unabated, making the country a potentially big supplier of projects under the CDM (clean dev...

Introduction: Deforestation significantly impacts large carnivores that depend on large tracts of interconnected forest habitat and that are sensitive to human activities. Understanding the relationship between habitat use and spatial distribution of such species across human modified landscapes is critical when planning effective conservation strategies. This study assessed the presence of pot...

BACKGROUND To implement the REDD+ mechanism (Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation, countries need to prioritize areas to combat future deforestation CO2 emissions, identify the drivers of deforestation around which to develop mitigation actions, and quantify and value carbon for financial mechanisms. Each comes with its own methodological challenges, and existing approach...

We estimate the effects of neighbors’ deforestation actions on individuals’ deforestation decisions in Costa Rica. To address simultaneity and the presence of spatially correlated unobservable factors, we instrument for neighboring deforestation using topographic and biological characteristics of neighboring parcels. We find evidence that neighboring deforestation significantly raises the proba...

Tropical forests are diminishing in extent due primarily to the rapid expansion of agriculture, but the future magnitude and geographical distribution of future tropical deforestation is uncertain. Here, we introduce a dynamic and spatially-explicit model of deforestation that predicts the potential magnitude and spatial pattern of Amazon deforestation. Our model differs from previous models in...

Aims (1) 2 To determine whether deforestation has affected the incidence of species of Melipona in an area undergoing deforestation. (2) To highlight the potential use of GIS and remote-sensed environmental variables in studies of insects as bioindicators of landscape change. Location Central Rondonia, Brazil in the south-western Amazon Basin, an area under intense deforestation pressure for ag...

At the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, then Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos proposed constructing a multi-national biodiversity corridor that would extend from Andes to Brazilian Atlantic coast. highlighted increased militarization of territory as one advantage corridor. In this model, ecological conservation becomes matter national/natural security, form counterinsurgency counter illegal ...