More Than 30,000 Miles of Roads Built in Amazon in 3 Years
Nov 4, 2013 · More than 30,000 miles of roads were built in the part of the Amazon rain forest found in Brazil in just three years, a study that hopes to help aid efforts to stop deforestation has found.
Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest ...
Sep 19, 2024 · But for those who live in remote areas of northwest Brazil, the highway could serve as a lifeline to modern civilization, experts argue. The current road is 560 miles long and mostly dirt. It connects the Amazon-adjacent states of …
Case Study: The Amazonian Road Decision - Education
Oct 19, 2023 · The proposed Pucallpa–Cruzeiro do Sul will connect the Amazon’s interior to urban centers and export markets in Peru and Brazil. However, critics are worried that the road will also create new opportunities for illegal logging and infringe on the territory of indigenous communities and wildlife.
In the Amazon rainforest, small roads have big impacts
Dec 1, 2016 · Unpaved roads usually have a smaller ecological footprint than paved roads. However, Saenz and his colleagues found that a relatively obscure unpaved and undrivable road had profound impacts on amphibians and reptiles.
How many roads are in the Amazon rainforest? - NCESC
Jun 22, 2024 · The Amazon rainforest has 96,500 kilometers of roads, with nearly two-thirds of them being unpaved. Are there roads in the Amazon rainforest? Yes, the Amazon Basin has 96,500 kilometers of roads, nearly two-thirds of which are unpaved.
Roads of the Amazon: The Trans-Amazonian Highway
Jan 8, 2016 · In the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, the Trans Amazonian Highway, a 2,000-mile paved road bisects the lush Amazon. Intending to connect important cities and move commodities to urban markets, highway construction is an ongoing project that is causing great deforestation.
Amazon Rainforest - ArcGIS StoryMaps
This map from MAAP shows the existing, new, and proposed roads within the Amazon Rainforest as of 2022. From observing this map, one can infer that the main areas of deforestation (purple areas) directly connect to the existing road systems (black lines).
Brazil's plans to pave an Amazon road could open path to more ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Plans to pave Brazil's highway BR-319 through the Amazon rainforest have raised alarm from environmental groups.
Brazil highways drive Amazon development—and destruction - Phys.org
Oct 8, 2019 · Fransuer is one of thousands of truckers plying the BR230 and BR163, major transport routes that have played a key role in the development and destruction of the world's largest rainforest, now...
Brazilian lawmakers pass bill to pave highway through Amazon rainforest
Amazon researchers say the repaved road would trigger an explosion of deforestation in Amazonas state, home to most of Brazil’s best-preserved rainforest state due to a lack of roads. Every...