Near-real-time satellite alerts feeding a funded, empowered environmental enforcement body
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Pair two-tier satellite monitoring (an annual census plus near-real-time alerts, ideally radar where clouds are heavy, published openly) with a funded, empowered enforcement body that acts on the alerts: targeted inspections, fines, embargoes, and seizure/destruction of clearing…
Legal Amazon, Brazil
SuccessBrazilian federal government — IBAMA, ICMBio, INPE, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Min. Marina Silva)· 2023–2025· National
When Lula took office in January 2023, his government reactivated IBAMA as the lead enforcement body, ended the previous administration's gag order on agents, and roughly tripled the agency's resources. Acting on INPE's…
Annual Legal Amazon deforestation (PRODES year to July 2025)~11,594 km² (2022)5,796 km²km²/yr
Year-on-year change, PRODES year to July 2025-11%
Brazilian federal budget (IBAMA), supported by the Amazon Fund· 4 sources