Publikationsdatum:
2017-02-07
Beschreibung:
The article “Are Brazil's Deforesters Avoiding Detection?” published recently in Conservation Letters offers a detailed analysis of the limits of PRODES, Brazil's best known system for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. While the article provides a useful comparison of PRODES and two other monitoring systems, we strongly disagree with the authors’ suggestion that Brazil's monitoring systems are “antiquated and incomplete” and that they do not provide the basis for “transparently achieving Brazil‘s GHG [greenhouse gases] mitigation commitments” (Richards et al., 2016: 11). Richard's et al. ignore the existence of other monitoring systems developed by Brazilian government over the last decade. Thus, while PRODES still have a central role, the government has also at its disposal DETER to detect in near real-time large plots of forest degradation, DETEX for selective logging, DEGRAD for forest degradation, DETER-B for small plots of forest degradation and TerraClass for the monitoring of the increase and loss of secondary forests and other land uses (see Table 1 for a full list) (Almeida et al., 2016, Diniz et al., 2015). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
Print ISSN:
1755-263X
Digitale ISSN:
1755-263X
Thema:
Biologie
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