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Evolution of people‐centered conservation in Brazil

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Over the past 50 years, conservation science has shifted from a species centered to a people and nature centered field of research and practice (Mace 2014), and Brazil has played an important role in this transformation.Brazil is a biologically and culturally megadiverse country.It contains six of the world's terrestrial biomes and a large costal area (Scarano et al. 2024) alongside over 300 indigenous ethic groups speaking 254 different languages, and millions of resource dependent communities (IBGE 2017).Biomes, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal wetland, are globally iconic places for biodiversity, hosting healthy populations of numerous endemic and threatened species, but at the same time, they

Source: Conservation Biology

DOI: 10.1111/cobi.70041

Authors: Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti, Fabio Rubio Scarano, Claudio Valladares‐Padua, Thais Q. Morcatty

Institutions: Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, University College London, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UNESCO, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,400