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Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon – PPCDAm (Reducing deforestation and the degradation of native vegetation by promoting the maintenance of ecosystem services through the sustainable use of forest resources and the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. It is on the fourth implementation stage (2016-2020). The Plan encompasses several policies and actions from the Federal Government. It is structured in nine specific objectives distributed into four thematic areas: i) environmental monitoring and control; ii) land tenure regularization and territorial management, iii) fostering sustainable productive activities and iv) normative and economic instruments). The Plan aims to implement different actions like: to promote allocation and tenure of public lands; to put 30% of the Amazon biome under protected areas; to implement the National System for the Control of the Origin of Forest Products (Sinaflor); to reduce the area affected by forest fires; to improve deforestation alert systems; to map the annual burned area in all Brazilian biomes; to enhance the positive incentives to reduce deforestation and foster new models of production and sustainable use of the forest; and others.

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