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<p>Considered an invasive species, <em>Sus scrofa</em> causes damage to farmers in an important part of Brazil’s savanna-like biome. The researchers analyzed 55 landscapes in São Paulo state, observing larger numbers of native mammals in areas with well-conserved vegetation and diversified crops, while native species richness was far lower in areas of monoculture.</p>
Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometres away to get warmer, according to a new study.The research, by a team of British and Brazilian scientists, led by Dr Edward Butt at the University of Leeds, suggests that tropical f
Rural real estate markets in the Pan Amazon are regulated by institutions that are a legacy of the agrarian reform movements that played a prominent role in domestic politics during the last half of the twentieth century. Prior to World War II, the region was characterised by a quasi-feudal land tenure system, with ownership concentrated […]
The adage ‘possession is nine-tenths of the law’ is not legally true, but the concept reigns supreme on frontier landscapes in the Pan Amazon. Land grabbers and peasant pioneers share a modus operandi: they occupy land that does not belong to them. Historically, this process was condoned by the state, and conflict occurred only when […]
‘Upside-down forest’ is the world’s most biodiverse savanna and its carbon-storing root systems feed watershed basins in most of South America