MAAP #178: Gold Mining Deforestation Across the Amazon

Gold Mining is one of the major deforestation drivers across the Amazon. Although not typically at the scale of agricultural deforestation, gold mining has the potential to severely impact critical areas such as protected areas & indigenous territories. Relatedly, gold mining often targets remote areas, thus impacting largely intact and carbon-rich primary forests. Here, for […]


MAAP #155: Deforestation Hotspots in the Venezuelan Amazon

We present here the first report of a series focused on the Venezuelan Amazon, which covers over 47 million hectares of the northern section of the Amazon biome (above western Brazil). As the Amazon Base Map indicates, Venezuela is a key part to the remaining core Amazon that is still functioning as a critical carbon […]