Excellent report with Erika Berenguer's participation on the document launched to improve policies to tackle #degradation.(https://lnkd.in/efwJRHxK).
As the report mentions, this year there is a 75% probability of #elnino occurring between July and August (data from the National Institute of Meteorology - Inmet), besides this the #deforestation rates are still very high with a lot of wood on the ground drying and ready to be burned, and as Erika mentions, fire is the final stage of deforestation and that can indeed escape into the #forest. 
In this document (https://lnkd.in/eVhu_bwm), researchers (including the scientists I most admire in this area of degradation - Ane Alencar, Ima Vieira and Erika Berenguer) show that the area affected by degradation is greater than the area of deforestation (greater #carbonemissions and loss of #biodiversity). 
Mapping degradation is a great challenge, because there are several causes, one of them is the disturbance of #selectivelogging and #fragmentation (edge effect). Thanks to programs such as DETER, it is still possible to identify areas of greater extent of degradation, but there is still much degradation that is difficult to quickly identify due to various challenges, including the #spatial and #temporal resolution of some sensors.
We need public policies to maintain and improve programs for mapping degradation in #tropicalforests, as the document mentions, there is still a big misunderstanding of people who believe that fighting deforestation will solve the degradation, which is not true, since deforestation (in the Amazon) was contained in several regions, but degradation is still happening in those places.

#amazon #climatechange