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Forests and people: Brazilian policies and initiatives
1 Quilombola is a community remaining from a quilombo, also called mocambo, a community organized
by fugitive slaves in colonial Brazil. Encyclopædia Britannica, see The legal concept of
traditional quilombola communities is provided for Article 2 of Federal Decree No. 4887/2003.
2 Caiçaras people are fishermen who inhabit the coast of South and Southeast regions of Brazil.
3 Workers undertaking the traditional activity of rubber extraction (rubber tappers).
4 Fig1. Amazon Rainforest, Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque (photo: Zig Koch/MMA).
Fig2. Atlantic Rainforest, Reserva Biológica do Arvoredo (photo: João de Deus Medeiros). Fig3. Cerrado,
Parque Nacional da Chapada das Mesas (photo: Palê Zuppani/MMA). Fig4. Caatinga, Reserva Particular
do Patrimônio Natural Serra das Almas (photo: João de Deus Medeiros). Fig5. Pantanal, Estação
Ecológica de Taiamã (photo: Palê Zuppani/MMA).
Conserving forest biodiversity in the ASEAN region
1 SCBD, 2010
2 ACB, 2010
3 ACB, 2010
4 ACB, 2010
5 SCBD, 2009
6 SCBD, 2011
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Restoring and managing forest landscapes for better lives
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2 Chaudhary, 1999; Aref, 2000
3 FAO, 2010
4 CDSI, 2010
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forest maps for forest carbon tracking, IEEE Catalog No.: CFP11IGA-DVD, ISBN:978-4577-1004-9.
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- The 10-m mosaic can be seen at:
Foreseeing the forests: vegetation dynamics in an earth system model
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