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Brazil: Parks, indigenous territories are effectively reducing Amazon deforestation

2013-03-12 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Strict conservation areas and indigenous reserves are more effective at reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon relative to "sustainble-use" areas set up for non-indigenous resource extraction, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, which involved researchers from the University of Michigan, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil, compared rates of forest loss between...

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