if all existing and proposed concessions and agricultural areas are cleared, then we would end up with less than 900,000 ha scattered in small, often unviable patches across the ecoregion. Numerous ...

Ecoregions are areas that have similar climate, geology, and soils. These abiotic (non-biological) factors determine what plants and animals can live in the ecosystem. Even though two places might be ...

The Atlantic Forest runs along the eastern coast of Brazil, stretching inland into Argentina and Paraguay. The ecoregion encompasses major cities like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and is home to ...

The ecoregion lies mostly in the Kura-Aras Lowland, drained by the Kura River which flows eastward to empty into the Caspian Sea, and its southern tributary the Aras. It is bounded on the north by the ...

The Atlantic Forest plays an important role in mitigating climate change. One hectare of forest in the Upper Paraná ecoregion can store an average of 223.5 tons of carbon; in the Serra do Mar ...

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the miombo ecoregion of east and southern Africa has addressed these issues in its evolution. This has seen the evolution of policy, legal and ...

It's no surprise that European farmers chose to settle here, converting the area to agricultural lands. Today, most of the ecoregion is now farmland. In fact, it is estimated that less than 10 per ...