TY - JOUR
T1 - Increasing wildfires threaten progress on halting deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia
AU - de Oliveira, Gabriel
AU - Mataveli, Guilherme
AU - Stark, Scott C.
AU - Jones, Matthew W.
AU - Carmenta, Rachel
AU - Brunsell, Nathanial A.
AU - Santos, Celso A. G.
AU - da Silva Junior, Carlos A.
AU - Cunha, Helinilza F. A.
AU - da Cunha, Alan C.
AU - dos Santos, Carlos A. C.
AU - Stewart, Hannah
AU - Fuchs, Vanessa Boanada
AU - Hellenkamp, Skye
AU - Artaxo, Paulo
AU - Alencar, Ane A. C.
AU - Moutinho, Paulo
AU - Shimabukuro, Yosio E.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - Sustainably managing the Amazon region is essential to mitigating global climate change and to preserving the biological and cultural diversity of the region. After promising reductions in degradation in the 2010s, a return to historically high levels of land conversion and deforestation during the past 5 years has severely undermined these goals. This land conversion — primarily the result of logging, mining and ranching — has generated social, economic and environmental burdens across scales1. Encouragingly, signs of recovery towards Amazon protection are appearing under Brazil’s current federal administration. But amid the drop in deforestation, a new threat is on the rise: uncontrolled fires.
AB - Sustainably managing the Amazon region is essential to mitigating global climate change and to preserving the biological and cultural diversity of the region. After promising reductions in degradation in the 2010s, a return to historically high levels of land conversion and deforestation during the past 5 years has severely undermined these goals. This land conversion — primarily the result of logging, mining and ranching — has generated social, economic and environmental burdens across scales1. Encouragingly, signs of recovery towards Amazon protection are appearing under Brazil’s current federal administration. But amid the drop in deforestation, a new threat is on the rise: uncontrolled fires.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174223147&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41559-023-02233-3
DO - 10.1038/s41559-023-02233-3
M3 - Comment/debate
VL - 7
SP - 1945
EP - 1946
JO - Nature Ecology & Evolution
JF - Nature Ecology & Evolution
SN - 2397-334X
IS - 12
ER -