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Desmatamento na Amazônia Legal: Evolução, Causas, Monitoramento e Possibilidades de Mitigação Através do Fundo Amazônia

2011; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4322/floram.2011.027

2179-8087

André Luiz Ferreira Lemos, José de Arimatea Silva,

Brazilian Legal Issues

The present work aimed to study the deforested areas in the Amazon biome, analyzing the causes of deforestation occurred in the Brazilian states of the so called ' Amazonia Legal' until 2009.Two methods were used in order to assess the deforestation.The first evaluation was accomplished through the premise of (Brasil, 2008), which considers that the deforestation in the Amazon biome was of approximately 300,000 km 2 in 1977.The second assessment was performed between 1978 and 2009, using the PRODES (Program for Calculation of Deforestation in the Amazon) system methodology.The results indicated that the greatest loss of the Amazon biome has occurred in the states of 'Mato Grosso' and 'Tocantins' , with 48.95 and 59.12% respectively.The states of ' Amapa' and ' Amazonas' are among the least deforested ones between 1978 and 2009, considering the average deforestation rate, with 1.41 and 2.14%, respectively.