Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity

Brock, Rebecca C.; Arnell, Andy; Simonson, William D.; Soterroni, Aline C.; Mosnier, Aline; Ramos, Fernando M.; Carvalho, Alexandre Filordi de; Câmara, Gilberto; Pirker, J.; Obersteiner, Michael; Kapos, Valerie

doi:10.1007/s10531-021-02159-x

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“…Although scientific evidence increasingly supports strong protections for nonpermanent waters, those water bodies may warrant different protections than permanent waters, as has occurred in several States for riparian ecosystems (e.g., FEMAT 1993; Colvin et al 2019; Boisjolie et al 2017; Brock et al 2021; Kampf et al 2021; Table 1). For example, Oregon and Washington require different riparian buffer widths for nonpermanent streams draining private lands, for nonfish‐bearing perennial streams on forest land, and for fish‐bearing perennial streams on forest land.…”

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Waters of the United States: An Urgent Call for Action by Fisheries and Aquatic Science Professionals

Hughes,

Gardner,

Shirey

et al. 2023

Fisheries

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Waters of the United States: An Urgent Call for Action by Fisheries and Aquatic Science Professionals

Hughes,

Gardner,

Shirey

et al. 2023

Fisheries

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“…This is a private reserve of about 21,000 ha, owned by the mining company VALE S.A. with the goal of preserving biodiversity (no mining occurs at this site). It is within the Atlantic Forest Biome (as described by Brazilian Law 11.428/ 2006 (Brock et al, 2021)), and it is represented predominantly by dense ombrophilous forest, characterized by being evergreen, with emergent trees that can reach up to 50 m in height (Jesus & Rolim, 2005). The climate of RNV is tropical hot and humid (Aw) under the Köppen classification, with a wet season in the summer (October-March) and dry season in the winter (April-September; Jesus & Rolim, 2005).…”

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Diet, activity patterns, and home range use in forest and cultivated areas for one wild group of endangered crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus) in Reserva Natural Vale, Espírito Santo, Brazil

Martins

Izar

Araújo

et al. 2022

American J Primatol

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Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) are distributed widely in the Neotropics and may be able to survive in modified landscapes because of their omnivorous, opportunistic diet. The poorly known and endangered crested capuchin monkey (Sapajus robustus) is endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Bahia, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo states, Brazil. We collected data on diet and home range for a crested capuchin group with access to forest and cultivated areas. We hypothesized that with access to cultivated exotic fruit, capuchins would use cultivated areas more for feeding during the season of fruit scarcity in the surrounding forest and have a small home range size because of higher fruit availability. Both the forest and the cultivated areas peaked in fruit availability in the wet season, with a low proportion of trees producing fruit in the dry season; cultivated areas had a higher proportion of trees in fruit compared to the forest throughout the study. While monkeys consumed exotic fruits like jackfruit and oil palm, we recorded more samples of them eating forest fruits than exotic fruits in all but 1 month, and they consumed a more diverse array of forest fruits (56 species) but only six exotic species. Home range size was relatively small compared with other studies: 120.5 ha across the year (wet season 102 ha, dry season 111.5 ha). Natural and human‐intensified fruit sources in a protected area without hunting may have allowed monkeys to maintain a smaller home range size. The group composition changed during the study; this also likely influenced home range use. Studies focused on robust capuchin groups that utilize agricultural or cultivated foods may underestimate home range needs for groups without access to human‐intensified food sources. Studying crested capuchin ecology in additional locations will be important for establishing a sound species conservation program.

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“…Previous modeling studies [7,36,38] and reviews [5] have investigated the potential implications of the FC on land use change, or the impact of land use change on Brazilian species [4,10,37,42]. Other research has looked at the influence of the FC on biodiversity in certain biomes or regions [6,32,43,47].…”

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Current policies are insufficient to protect or restore Brazil’s cost-effective conservation priority zones

Ramos

Scarabello

Soterroni

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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In Brazil, conservation priority zones, in spite of their key role in preserving natural vegetation and its environmental resources are frequently located outside the country’s public network of protected areas (PAs). Here we present the first study on land-use impacts inside Brazil’s unprotected (i.e., outside PAs) cost-effective conservation priority zones (CEZs), for the period 2020-2050. CEZs are conservation priority zones that had experienced low levels of human impact in 2020. In this study, we consider various governance scenarios, including different deforestation control and native vegetation restoration policies. To this end, a land-use change model is combinedwith a downscaling method to generate natural vegetation cover projections at a 0.01 degree resolution. Results, which include the effects of climate change on the expansion of the Brazilian agriculture, project native vegetation losses (through deforestation)or gains (through restoration) inside unprotected CEZs. If the current pattern of disregard for the environment persists, our results indicate that a large share of the native vegetation inside Brazil’s CEZs is likely to disappear, with negative impacts on biodiversity preservation, green-house gas emissions and ecosystem services in general. Moreover, even if fully implemented and enforced, Brazil’s current Forest Code is insufficient to adequately protect CEZs from anthropization, especially in the Cerrado biome. We expect that this study can help improving the conservation and restoration of CEZs in Brazil.

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Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity

Cited by 16 publications

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Waters of the United States: An Urgent Call for Action by Fisheries and Aquatic Science Professionals

Waters of the United States: An Urgent Call for Action by Fisheries and Aquatic Science Professionals

Diet, activity patterns, and home range use in forest and cultivated areas for one wild group of endangered crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus) in Reserva Natural Vale, Espírito Santo, Brazil

Current policies are insufficient to protect or restore Brazil’s cost-effective conservation priority zones

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