#deforestation-governance

Arson, deliberate burning and fire used for illegal land clearing can escape control, damage protected ecosystems and threaten nearby communities.

Rural abandonment, homogeneous plantations, invasive plants and fragmented land management can connect combustible vegetation across landscapes, allowing fires to grow larger and more severe.

Work, machinery, infrastructure, recreation, household activities, deliberate burning, and illegal clearing cause preventable ignitions that can become destructive under dangerous fire conditions.

Stopping new ocean disposal is upstream of every other facet: the 200,000+ drums on the abyssal plain exist because deliberate sea dumping was accepted practice for decades. The priority now is keeping the ban in force, extending it to adjacent proposals, and ensuring it is actua

Across tropical forest nations, most clearing is illegal and tied to cattle, soy/palm, land-grabbing, and mining. It is profitable, remote, hard to police, and weakly enforced when political will lapses — progress is real but reversible.

Protect intact fire-sensitive forests from clearing, fragmentation and degradation that dry vegetation and make repeated wildfire more likely.

Coordinate land, environmental and criminal enforcement so deliberate burning and illegal clearing create a credible likelihood of detection and consequence.

Bind the measures with a standing interministerial action plan (PPCDAm) covering land-use planning, monitoring and sustainable production, funded by a performance-based mechanism (the Amazon Fund) that pays out only after verified reductions and draws sustained donor finance.

Brazil's DETER near-real-time satellite alert system (operated by INPE) targets environmental enforcement in the Amazon by routing alerts to field enforcement teams who conduct inspections, impose fines, issue embargoes…

The Amazon Fund is a performance-based forest finance mechanism created in 2008 and managed by Brazil's development bank BNDES. It disburses money only after INPE verifies that deforestation has fallen below a baseline,…