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Philip Martin Fearnside,Euler Melo Nogueira,Aurora Miho Yanai
Extractive reserves in the Amazon Forest maintain carbon stocks out of the atmosphere, thereby avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions that provoke global warming. This and other environmental services, such as recycling water and maintaining biodiversity, pro...
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Carlos Valério Aguiar Gomes,Ane Alencar,Jacqueline Michelle Vadjunec,Leonardo Marques Pacheco
The Brazilian Amazon contains the largest remaining contiguous forest in the tropics, but also faces strong development pressures and one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. In the 30 years since the murder of the rubber tapper leader Chi...
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Patricia Shanley,Fatima Cristina da Silva,Trilby MacDonald,Murilo da Serra Silva
Since the death of Chico Mendes three decades ago, nearly half of the Amazon forest area has been conserved through the collective sacrifice and struggle of thousands of forest-reliant families in Brazil, twined with political will and dense scientific a...
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Marcela Montserrat Landero Figueroa, Miles J. G. Parsons, Benjamin J. Saunders and Iain M. Parnum
Spatially explicit information on coral fish species abundance and distribution is required for effective management. Nonextractive techniques, including echosounders and video census, can be particularly useful in marine reserves where the use of extrac...
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Karen A. Kainer,Lucia H. O. Wadt,Christina L. Staudhammer
In the last three decades, Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) has emerged as a cornerstone species for Amazonia. This has gone hand-in-hand with the creation of extractive reserves, an alternative land use model to balance biodiversity conservation with r...
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Stephan Schwartzman
In the mid-1970?s rubber tapper leaders Chico Mendes and Wilson Pinheiro reformulated strategic objectives of the rubber tappers? movement, from protesting and denouncing violent dispossession of families and deforestation to defending rubber tappers? fo...
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