A new study reveals that untouched, primary forests are the ecological gold standard, but regrowing tropical forests are key to biodiversity and carbon storage.
Amazon
Tropical forests are at the front line of sustainable development, where critical trade-offs need to be negotiated between climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation, food production and economic development. SEI research work on tropical forests ranges from ecological research to groundbreaking data-driven transparency tools linking impacts of deforestation to global companies and consumer markets.
A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major study in Nature.
An international team warns that a failure to act quickly and decisively will risk unprecedented species loss in the most diverse parts of the planet.
Farm-level data from the eastern Brazilian Amazon shows that market proximity had a significant positive correlation with fertilizer adoption.
Thousands of fish and other freshwater fauna species living in small forest streams in tropical forest areas like the Amazon could be at risk.
This article presents evidence that current environmental legislation designed to protect streams and their biota in the Amazon is not fit for purpose
Field evidence that overturns the assumption that rural–urban migration in the tropics will reduce hunting of bushmeat and endangered forest species
This book chapter suggests how producer jurisdictions can play a more effective role in making agricultural commodity more sustainable.
The article suggests that non-monetary factors, as well as lack of infrastructure, explain the persistence of cattle-ranching and other unsustainable land uses.
Multi-scale assessment of the biological condition of streams in the Amazon to date, examining functional responses of fish assemblages to land use
