Brazil could conserve its valuable Atlantic Forest by investing just 0.01 per cent of its annual GDP, according to a new study. The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is one of the most important ...

Origin of biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 / 140603135708.htm ...

Presidente Prudente, Brazil - WWF-Brazil, together with over 30 other organizations in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, has launched the Alto Parana Forests Ecoregion Vision — a scenario for the future ...

The Atlantic forest avifauna is a highly endangered group; 68% of the species are rare. Patterns of rarity among the birds in the region likely result from their specific ecologies or evolutionary ...

The Mata Atlantica forest, as it is known in Brazil, encompasses the nation's biggest cities, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, and about 70 percent of the country's population.

Deforestation surged 66 percent last year in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, according to a new report, compounding fears over the rampant destruction of the Amazon rainforest further north.. The "Mata ...

Before colonization by the Portuguese in the 16th century, the Atlantic forest biome covered 330 million acres (more than 500,000 square miles) near and along Brazil’s coast. Less than 15% of ...

A study that looked at changes in forest cover in 129 Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest between 1995 and 2016 ... Brazil’s southeast region, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest.

The Atlantic forest of Brazil, one of the world’s most threatened biodiversity hotspots, may have served as a critical refuge for biodiversity during the ice ages. The findings suggest that ...

While deforestation in the Amazon region did not take off until the 1970s, European settlers began destroying the Atlantic Forest after arriving on Brazil’s eastern coast in the 16th century ...

Brazil could conserve its valuable Atlantic Forest by investing just 0.01 percent of its annual GDP, according to a new study. Situated along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, it once covered an area ...