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Lack of Compliance in Gillnet Fisheries Regulations Increases Risk to a Vulnerable Species

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of regulatory compliance in a Brazilian gillnet fishery, based on Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) tracking data. Satellite transmissions records, interpreted as proxies for gillnet haulings events, were analyzed and classified using a neural network to assess the level of compliance of the gillnet fleet.
Rodrigo Claudino dos Santos, Eduardo R. Secchi, Joanna Turner, Luis Gustavo Cardoso   +3 more
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Elementos (des)constitutivo da justiça ambiental na amazônia

Direito em Debate
O problema da pesquisa reside na identificação dos obstáculos enfrentados pelo Direito Ambiental periférico na realização da justiça ambiental, da cidadania e na proteção da Amazônia Legal.
Carolina de Albuquerque, Douglas Aparecido Bueno, Victor de Almeida Conselvan   +2 more
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Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience

Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior, Minelle E. Silva, Fabiana L. Oliveira, Daiane M. Neutzling   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Justice in the Brazilian Coastal Food Systems: Policies, Institutions, and Knowledges on Small‐Scale Fishers and Energy Development

World Food Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores environmental justice issues in coastal food systems, focusing on conflicts between small‐scale fisheries and the energy sector due to differing goals in managing food and energy sources. It does so by examining the interdependence between institutions, policies, and different types of knowledge; key elements in building ...
Mateus Henrique Amaral, Lira Luz Benites Lazaro, Rosie Day, Lindsay C. Stringer, Leandra Regina Gonçalves, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Leandro Luiz Giatti   +6 more
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Impact of land tenure on deforestation control and forest restoration in Brazilian Amazonia

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
This study examines how land tenure constrains Brazil’s ability to meet its deforestation control and forest restoration goals in its Amazonia biome. Our findings are based on an updated assessment of land tenure and land use in the region.
Gilberto Camara, Rolf Simoes, Heloisa M Ruivo, Pedro R Andrade, Aline C Soterroni, Fernando M Ramos, Rafael G Ramos, Marluce Scarabello, Claudio Almeida, Ieda Sanches, Luis Maurano, Alexandre Coutinho, Julio Esquerdo, João Antunes, Adriano Venturieri, Marcos Adami   +15 more
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Piper longiapiculatum (Piperaceae), a New Species From the Brazilian Amazon Piper longiapiculatum (Piperaceae), uma Nova Espécie da Amazônia Brasileira

Feddes Repertorium, Volume 137, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In order to address the many lacunae in Amazonian Piper taxonomy and geography, we performed a field expedition in the Serra do Divisor National Park (Acre state, Brazil), resulting in the discovery of a new species, Piper longiapiculatum, herein described and compared to morphologically similar taxa.
Gabriel Marcusso Marcusso, Leonardo Biral, Layon Oreste Demarchi, Charles Eugene Zartman, Elsie Franklin Guimarães   +4 more
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Transporte Fluvial e Aéreo na Amazônia Legal: um estudo de caso no Município de Eirunepé - Amazonas

Geografia (Londrina), 2020
No espaço geográfico a globalização se apresenta com novas características e novas funcionalidades, induzindo mudanças no território e no lugar. Neste sentido, tendo como ponto de partida o uso da técnica e o fluxo do dinheiro, buscou-se neste estudo ...
Klintia Costa Lacerda, Nágila dos Santos Situba   +1 more
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Tourism, human–wildlife interactions, and wildlife trade in the globalizing Amazon

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2026.
Tourism in the globalizing Peruvian Amazon contributes to harmful human–wildlife interactions and the wildlife trade, with tourists participating in activities such as handling wildlife, taking selfies with animals, purchasing live animals, and wild meat consumption.
Christian J. Rivera, William R. Travis, Miguel Caireta Camps, Ruth M. Rocker, Javier Velásquez Varela, Pamela Montero Alvarez, Agustín Fuentes, David S. Wilcove   +7 more
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2281-2294, July 2026.
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Exploring the legal, policy, ethical and practical implications of digitisation of botanical and fungal collections

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1076-1086, July 2026.
Societal Impact Statement Dried plant and fungal specimens held in collections provide a unique asset to understand the natural world and inform conservation approaches. By creating freely available, digital images of these collections, these specimens can be used by more scientists from around the globe to ask research questions and apply new ...
Sonia Dhanda, Elianne Lee, Tom Livermore, Alan James Paton, Paula Westenberger, China Williams, William Milliken, Mark Nesbitt, Noorunnisa Begum, Maui Hudson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source