Rural producers in Mato Grosso who preserve the forest beyond what the law requires can get paid for it. This is the goal of CONSERV, a project aimed at financial compensation for farmers who have a surplus of native vegetation. The state of Mato Grosso has approximately 7 million hectares of native vegetation surplus, that […]
Rural agricultural producers in the Brazilian Amazon are getting paid to preserve forests that could be legally deforested inside their farms. The Conserv initiative will be launched tomorrow (10/7) in Brasília by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, after three years of preliminary studies. […]
