An overview of current pressures and potential threats on the Amazon, a region of 7.8 million square kilometres shared by Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela e French Guiana and inhabited by 33 million people, including 1.5 million indigenous people from 385 different ethnic groups. Information and analysis on deforestation and degradation, natural resource concessions and exploitation applications, and infrastructure projects.
Amazonia Under Pressure 2020 took an X-ray of the main threats to the world’s largest tropical forest, and noted the progress of its deterioration. First published in 2012, Raisg now presents an update of data and analyzes, incorporating new themes and methodologies. The publication is the result of…
The map, with information updated to 2018, presents a classification of indigenous territories and protected natural areas according to the presence in these of highways, hydroelectricity, mining, burning, deforestation, and oil and gas. These have been the main causes of landscape change in the Amazon over recent decades. Pressure is understood as human activity that…
The map presents a classification of indigenous territories and protected natural areas according to the presence in these of highways, hydroelectricity, mining, burning, deforestation, and oil and gas. These have been the main causes of landscape change in the Amazon over recent decades. Pressure is understood as human activity that puts at risk ecosystem integrity…
This atlas presents a spatial analysis of a set of five pressures on and threats to the Ecuadorian Amazon region in the last ten years: highways, oil and gas, mining, heat sources and deforestation. PDF language: spanish
Amazonia under Pressure presents in map form an overview of current pressures on and potential threats to Amazonia. It contains information updated to 2012 on highways, oil and gas, hydroelectricity, heat sources, and deforestation compiled in map form and analysed from different angles: Amazonia as a whole, the Amazon region of each country, protected natural…