Illegal use of natural resources in federal protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Brazilian Amazon is the world's largest rainforest regions and plays a key role in biodiversity conservation as well as climate adaptation and mitigation. The government has created a network of protected areas (PAs) to ensure long-term conservation of the region. However, despite the importance of and positive advances in the establishment of PAs, natural resource depletion in the Brazilian Amazon is pervasive.

Methods

We evaluated a total of 4,243 official law enforcement records generated between 2010 and 2015 to understand the geographical distribution of the illegal use of resources in federal PAs in the Brazilian Amazon. We classified illegal activities into ten categories and used generalized additive models (GAMs) to evaluate the relationship between i

SUBMITTER: Kauano EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5639874 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature