Fake legal logging in the Brazilian Amazon

Autor(es)

Brancalion, Pedro H. S. ^[1] ; de Almeida, Danilo R. A. ^[1] ; Vidal, Edson ^[1] ; Molin, Paulo G. ^[2] ; Sontag, Vanessa E. ^[1] ; Souza, Saulo E. X. F. ^[1] ; Schulze, Mark D. ^[3]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Luiz Queiroz Coll Agr, Dept Forest Sci, Av Padua Dias 11, POB 9, BR-13418900 Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[2] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Ctr Nat Sci, Rua Serafim Libaneo 04, POB 64, BR-18245970 Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[3] HJ Andrews Expt Forest & Oregon State Univ, POB 300, Blue River, OR 97413 - USA

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: SCIENCE ADVANCES; v. 4, n. 8 AUG 2018.
• Citações Web of Science: 7

Resumo

Declining deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon are touted as a conservation success, but illegal logging is a problem of similar scale. Recent regulatory efforts have improved detection of some forms of illegal logging but are vulnerable to more subtle methods that mask the origin of illegal timber. We analyzed discrepancies between estimated timber volumes of the national forest inventory of Brazil and volumes of logging permits as an indicator of potential fraud in the timber industry in the eastern Amazon. We found a strong overestimation bias of high-value timber species volumes in logging permits. Field assessments confirmed fraud for the most valuable species and complementary strategies to generate a ``surplus{''} of licensed timber that can be used to legalize the timber coming from illegal logging. We advocate for changes to the logging control system to prevent overexploitation of Amazonian timber species and the widespread forest degradation associated with illegal logging. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/50718-5 - Restauração ecológica de florestas ciliares, de florestas nativas de produção econômica e de fragmentos florestais degradados (em APP e RL), com base na ecologia de restauração de ecossistemas de referência, visando testar cientificamente os preceitos do Novo Código Florestal Brasileiro
• Beneficiário: Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues
• Linha de fomento: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa BIOTA - Temático
• Processo FAPESP: 16/05219-9 - Monitoramento de programas de restauração de paisagens florestais por meio de sensoriamento remoto LiDAR.
• Beneficiário: Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida
• Linha de fomento: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado