Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon.

• Autor(a) principal: PINTO, L. F. G.
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: FERREIRA, J. N., BERENGUER, E., ROSA, M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1159044; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2022.10.004
• topic: Restauração; Serviços de ecossistemas; Policy; Biodiversidade; Clima; Desmatamento; Política; Biodiversity; Climate; Deforestation; Ecosystem services; Forest restoration

Brazilian forests critical are for climate, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. The Atlantic Forest and the Amazon are among the most important tropical forests of the world but have different conservation status. The first is below its minimum threshold for biodiversity conservation while the Amazon is approaching its dieback threshold. Aiming to examine policy lessons from the Atlantic Forest which could be applied to the conservation of the Amazon, we first analysed the forest cover of basins of the Amazon compared to the reality of the Atlantic Forest. We found that regions of the Amazon already have forest cover similar to the Atlantic Forest and that 34% of them are below the dieback threshold. We propose policy lessons to avoid that the Amazon follow the same route of the Atlantic Forest and concluded that they need to be implemented urgently in a precautionary approach.