Protecting undesignated forests seen as key to slowing Amazon deforestation

Mongabay
Aug 9, 2021, 4:51 am229 pts
About 14% of the Brazilian Amazon, an area the size of Spain and Portugal combined, falls under the category of non-designated public forests, or NDPFs. These are state or federally owned forests for which no specific use has been decreed yet. By giving them a clear designation, Brazil could potentially slash…

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