Compliance to Brazil's forest code will not protect biodiversity and ecosystem services
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2018
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In striking contrast to heartening events in the adjacent Amazon, Brazil’s Cerrado
biome has seen continued deforestation over the past decade. Though approved in
2012, no study evaluated the impacts of new Brazilian Forest Code (FC) revision on
biodiversity and ecosystem services. Here, we report the first assessment of the likely
loss and gain in biodiversity and ecosystem services expected if the FC is properly
enforced across 200 million hectares of the Cerrado. We also discuss the challenges
associated to compliance with the law and present opportunities for conservation.
Establishing restoration programmes in private properties with currently less native
vegetation than required by the FC could create habitat for 25% more threatened species
than now found in these places and could also increase water security and carbon
stock in 56.6 MtC. More important, trading environmental reserve quotas coupled
with the strategic expansion of protected areas on private and public land could definitely
rescue the Cerrado from the brink.
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Carbon stock, Environmental policy, Deforestation, Nature’s contribution to people, Restoration, Water provision
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VIEIRA, Raísa Romênia S. et al. Compliance to Brazil's forest code will not protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. Diversity and Distributions, Oxford, v. 24, n. 4, p. 434-438, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12700. Disponível em: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.12700. Acesso em: 16 fev. 2023.