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Proposed Legislation to Mine Brazil's Indigenous Lands Will Threaten Amazon Forests and Their Valuable Ecosystem Services
A recent proposal to regulate mining within Indigenous Lands (ILs) threatens people and the unique ecosystems of Brazil's Legal Amazon. Here, we show that this new policy could eventually affect more than 863,000 km(2) of tropical forests—20% more than under current policies—assuming all known ...
Autores principales: | Siqueira-Gay, Juliana, Soares-Filho, Britaldo, Sanchez, Luis E., Oviedo, Antonio, Sonter, Laura J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier Inc.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.008 |
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