Paulo Barreto

TL;DR: It is argued that a longer-term commitment is needed to help maintain deforestation-free soy supply chains, as full compliance and enforcement of these regulations is likely years away.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the damage in unplanned and planned logging operations associated with each of five logging phases: (1) tree felling, (2) machine maneuvering to attach felled boles to chokers, (3) skidding boles, (4) constructing log landings, and (5) constructing logging roads.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the structure and economy of the wood industry along a 340 km stretch of the Belem-Brasilia Highway in eastern Amazonia and found that a typical sawmill with one band saw produces, on average, 4300 m3 of sawnwood year−1 from 9200m3 of roundwood.

TL;DR: In this article, a statistical analysis was conducted to determine if different levels of environmental enforcement between two groups of municipalities had any impact on the recent reduction of deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon, and the analysis showed that these targeted, heightened enforcement efforts avoided as much as 10,653 km2 of deforestation, which translates into 1.44 × 10-1 Pg C in avoided emissions for the 3 y period.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of costs and revenues was made for typical RIL and conventional logging operations in the eastern Amazon in Brazil and other tropical countries in response to domestic and international concern over the ecological and economic sustainability of harvesting natural tropical forests.