Biodiversity Conservation

We work with the objective of contributing to the biodiversity conservation in environmental, social and economic aspects.

Climate change

We support decision makers in the climate agenda focused on ecosystem conservation and restoration projects and biodiversity.

Ecosystem restoration

The approaches developed by IIS aim to assist the planning and implementation of vegetation recovery projects, exploring synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and costs, under a variety of scenarios.

Sustainable development

We seek to promote the transition to sustainability, contributing to the balance between socioeconomic development, biodiversity conservation and rational use of natural resources.

Sustainable Land Use

We promote the transition from the traditional agricultural practices to a more sustainable land management, helping to mitigate climate change and guaranteeing the future of the next generations.

Economic Analysis

We seek to strengthen and defend the basic principles of balance between the economy and the environment, favoring research, planning and management in public and private fields, linked to the relationship between ecological, social and economic systems, in order to improve social well-being.

Policies

We assist in the formulation of policies aimed at sustainability, as well as the implementation of practical actions, working in partnership with public sector bodies and other organizations.

Spatial intelligence

Through landscape modeling and monitoring, we identify the patterns and trends of social and ecological systems, supporting decision makers through quantitative statistics and mapped scenarios.

Publications

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Fighting deforestation alone fails tropical biodiversity

International efforts to conserve tropical forest species will fail unless they control logging, wildfires and fragmentation in the remaining forests, this is the conclusion of the study ‘Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation’, which was published in in the world’s leading scientific journal Nature. For the first time, the researchers from 18 international research institutions, including 11 Brazilian institutions (with the participation of IIS), were able to compare the loss of species caused by human disturbances with those that result from habitat loss due to deforestation. The published version of the paper can be accessed from the Nature
website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature18326