Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA) launches platform with data about threats to the Amazon rainforest

On the “anniversary” of “Day of the Fire”, a coordinated effort by land owners in 2019 to burn down forests, the Socio-environmental Institute (ISA) launched a platform that tracks alerts of environmental crimes in Indigenous Lands (TIs) and Conservation Units (UCs) of the Legal Amazon region. The Alerts+ Panel automatically cross-references “all available databases on fire, deforestation and mining” in the biome. The information can be accessed in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

The idea is that the data generated can be downloaded in the format of maps, tables and graphs to contribute to a qualified debate about Amazon and its threats, in counterpoint to the negationism and fake news propagated by the government.