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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present field surveys of wood mills and forest burning across Brazilian Amazonia which show that logging crews severely damage 10,000 to 15,000 km2 of forest that are not included in deforestation mapping programmes.

TL;DR: The recent 70% decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon suggests that it is possible to manage the advance of a vast agricultural frontier Enforcement of laws, interventions in soy and beef supply chains, restrictions on access to credit, and expansion of protected areas appear to have contributed to this decline, as did a decline in the demand for new deforestation as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This work quantifies changes resulting from the FC revisions in terms of environmental obligations and rights granted to land-owners and discusses conservation opportunities arising from new policy mechanisms in the FC.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of fire in the Amazon have been investigated and the authors found that forest fires create positive feedbacks in future fire susceptibility, fuel loading, and fire intensity.

TL;DR: Satellite-based maps of land cover and fire occurrence in the Brazilian Amazon were used to compare the performance of large uninhabited and inhabited reserves and found the inhibitory effect of indigenous lands on deforestation was strong after centuries of contact with the national society and was not correlated with indigenous population density.