The president of the national environmental authority Ibama, Rodrigo Agostinho, spoke during a scientific seminar on the biome, attended by Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva.
The native vegetation of quilombola territories is mainly concentrated in three of Brazil's six biomes: the Amazon (73%), the Cerrado (12%), and the Caatinga (10%).
The highest-ranking states for deforestation saw a plunge of some 60%. Among the factors behind it are the increase in inspections and embargoes, and the fact that producers are denied credit over deforestation.
The Caatinga—which means "white forest" in the Tupi-Guarani language —stands as an exclusively Brazilian biome, adapted to thrive in high-temperature and arid conditions.
Nearly half of the burned area in Brazil during January to June this year concentrated in Roraima—an Amazonian state—witnessing the destruction of one million hectares.
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