Record-breaking fires in the Brazilian Amazon associated with uncontrolled deforestation
Record-breaking fires in the Brazilian Amazon associated with uncontrolled deforestation
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巴西亚马逊地区破纪录的火灾与不受控制的森林砍伐有关
DOI:
10.1038/s41559-022-01945-2
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
16.8
通讯作者:
Aragão, Luiz E.
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作者:
Mataveli, Guilherme;de Oliveira, Gabriel;Silva-Junior, Celso H.;Stark, Scott C.;Carvalho, Nathália;Anderson, Liana O.;Gatti, Luciana V.;Aragão, Luiz E.
At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Brazil committed to ambitious goals to fight climate change 1. These include reducing greenhouse gases emissions by 50% when compared with 2005 levels by 2030, and achieving zero illegal deforestation by 2028. However, recent record-breaking fires in the Brazilian Amazon highlight a stark reality that is far removed from these lofty promises. Combining August and September of 2022, a two-month ‘fire season’in half of the Amazon 2, 74,398 active fires were recorded in the Brazilian Amazon—the highest number since the severe drought event of 2010 (ref. 3). Alarmingly, the number of active fires on 24 August 2022 (3,358) surpassed the remarkable ‘Fire Day’of 2019, and during the first eight days of September 2022 the number of active fires detected (> 20,000) exceeded the total for this month in 2019 and 2021 (ref. 3).Deforestation-related fires, a consequence of weak governance and political stance 4, are behind this extreme burning. Accumulated deforestation notices in August and September of 2022 (3,116 km2) were 64% above the same two-month period in 2021 (ref. 5). Moreover, 62% of the active fires detected in August and September of 2022 occurred in recently deforested areas 5 (Fig. 1). Active fires in recently deforested areas have increased by 71% compared with the same months in 2021 (ref. 5). Troublingly, the largest portion of the August and September 2022 fires (35% of them) were in vulnerable protected areas, Indigenous lands and other public areas that are not required to register with Brazil’s Environmental Rural Registry (Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR)) 5 (Fig. 1). The CAR is a self-declaratory public electronic registry that is required only for private lands, and is aimed at enhancing law enforcement; although CAR does not establish land ownership, land grabbers have been using this instrument to claim ownership of illegally occupied public lands 6. Active fires in these areas have increased by 69% compared with August and September of 2021 5. In recent years, the Brazilian Amazon has become highly vulnerable to land
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影响因子:
56.9
作者:
L. Ferrante;P. Fearnside
通讯作者:
P. Fearnside
影响因子:
6.7
作者:
N. Carvalho;L. Anderson;C. A. Nunes;A. Pessôa;C. H. L. Silva Junior;J. D. Reis;Y. Shimabukuro;E. Berenguer;J. Barlow;L. Aragão
通讯作者:
N. Carvalho;L. Anderson;C. A. Nunes;A. Pessôa;C. H. L. Silva Junior;J. D. Reis;Y. Shimabukuro;E. Berenguer;J. Barlow;L. Aragão
影响因子:
7.1
作者:
G. Carrero;R. Walker;C. Simmons;P. Fearnside
通讯作者:
P. Fearnside
影响因子:
27.6
作者:
Juliana Siqueira;J. Metzger;L. E. Sánchez;Laura J. Sonter
通讯作者:
Laura J. Sonter
影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Leite-Filho AT;Soares-Filho BS;Davis JL;Abrahão GM;Börner J
通讯作者:
Börner J