#MapBiomas

Houses in the Complexo do Alemão, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, in a February 2023 photograph.

Brazil's favelas nearly tripled their built-up area in 40 years — and the green edge they once had is now a deficit

An area of forest felled and burned in the rural zone of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in August 2020.

Farming covers 30.5% of the land ringing the Amazon's protected areas, and has grown 561% there in 41 years