Fictitious Brazil: Self-declared land ownership exceeds the country’s total area in one state

Science outreach / Journalism

The article addresses the chaotic situation of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) in the nine states of the Legal Amazon, showing who benefits from the lack of oversight of the system.

It had the scientific collaboration of Yan Werneck, Antônio Arbex Barroso, Pedro Paulo Souza-Lopes and Iago Simões, students of The Training Program in Quantitative Ecology.

Read the first report in the series.

Amount invested

Grant 2025: USD 1.800,00

Open Calls

Public call for journalistic reports based on biodiversity data