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Brazil's regulations governing deforestation and logging are often circumvented.
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Agreements with soy and beef companies are important but need strengthening.
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Effectiveness of commodity agreements is diminished by laundering and leakage.
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Timber harvest and transportation permits are open to widespread fraud.
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Ways exist to reduce circumvention of commodity agreements and regulations.
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Signatory parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity declared daring commitments to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 14.
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United Nations seems optimistic with the progress achieved towards SDG 14.
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However, major challenges presented by signatory governments are slowing down or compromising the achievement of the targets.
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Here we present initiatives and examples that give us hope towards the sustainability of the world's marine biodiversity.
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Legal Reserves represent almost one third of all remaining native vegetation in Brazil.
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There is no solid argument, evidence or theory that support that Legal Reserve extinction will favor Brazil development.
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The extinction of Legal Reserves will lead to a huge increase in native vegetation loss, with blatant negative consequences on biodiversity and ecosystem services provision.
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Legal Reserves are a key-component for effective and less expensive nature-based solutions.
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Legal Reserves should be considered as assets for the development of Brazil rather than liabilities.
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First review on abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) in Brazil.
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The ALDFG record began in the 1990s along beach strips.
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Studies focusing on underwater debris began in the 2000s and ALDFG were found in all categories applied for the marine litter collected in these research efforts.
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Only 9 studies are focused on ALDFG and started from 2009 onwards.
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We highlight what is known, the most studied areas, and what are the knowledge gaps about ALDFG.
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Unsustainable land use changes threaten the Pantanal wetlands.
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Origins of soda lakes in southern Pantanal (Nhecolândia) have recently been unveiled.
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Nhecolândia's soda lakes are carbon sinks with poorly known geomicrobiology.
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Conservation of soda lakes can benefit organic sustainable beef production.
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Soda lake extremophiles may be analogs to early life and the deep biosphere.
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Hunting is banned in Brazil.
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Illegal hunting in Brazil is widespread and cultural embedded.
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Data about wildlife, habitat distribution and motivations for hunting are lacking.
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Main factors driving non-compliance are analyzed and discussed.
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Policy options to deal with hunting in the future are proposed.
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Niche modelling and Alpha and Beta diversity analyses in Brazilian Cerrado.
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Biotic homogenization in Southern Cerrado.
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Species richness loss throughout Cerrado.
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Current Brazilian environmental legislation fails to consider the habitat heterogeneity of the cerrado biome.
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Legal reserves are severely biased in protecting forest environments at the expense of natural cerrado vegetation, thereby neglecting open-habitat biotas that are rapidly succumbing to agricultural conversion.
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Protected areas and Indigenous Lands contain a higher proportion of non-forest habitat than Legal Reserves within private landholdings.
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Airport-produced noise is unsuitable for areas of wildlife protection.
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Noise can generate stress and jeopardize wildlife reproduction.
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There is a need in Brazil to implement noise regulation within areas of wildlife protection.
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Terrestrial predator–human conflicts occur predominantly in developing nations.
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Shark–human conflicts occur in the developed world, with rapid mass media coverage.
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Terrestrial predator–human conflicts only were reported when are linked to western people (basically hunters or visitors).
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The media is often determined to over sensationalize without consideration of impacts for conservation.
