Chronology of extractive industry and multi-stakeholder initiatives in indigenous peoples’ territories.

Focus on corporate responsibility to respect indigenous peoples’ right to give or withhold consent.

Case studies involving ICMM member companies and the application of FPIC standard.

Implementation of FPIC standard fundamental in altering predominant devastating model of mining.

Indigenous peoples’ right to FPIC is the desired standard to protect indigenous rights.

Pilocarpus microphyllus is the main source of the medicament for glaucoma treatment.

Absence of sustainable management increases the risk of extinction of the species.

We review our understanding of P. microphyllus and propose conservation strategies.

New potential areas of natural occurrence of P. microphyllus are proposed.

Well synchronized vegetative and reproductive patterns in field growing plants.

We assessed the effects of mining on the distribution of mountaintop species.

Mining impacts more than 40% of the suitable habitat for 13 bird and anuran species.

Mining impacts areas estimated suitable for high richness of anuran and bird species.

Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia, hosts significant indigenous Palaeolithic art galleries.

Many of these petroglyph engravings are as old as 30,000 years Before Present.

Mining and industry are irrevocably damaging this unique cultural and natural heritage site.

The paper examines recent attempts to protect the heritage of the area from further destruction.

It focuses on World Heritage nomination, indigenous activism and complex politics of conservation.

Forest restoration is one of the main strategies to recover Rio Doce watershed.

NVPL estimates a vegetation debt in the Rio Doce watershed of 716k hectares.

Forest in APPs increased water quality resilience in the Rio Doce watershed.

The implementation of the NVPL can stimulate the ecological recovery of Rio Doce.

It will also contribute to comply with several Brazilian environmental commitments.

Academia can identify social-environmentally sensitive areas for mining activities.

We describe academic active involvement on participatory environmental planning.

We demonstrate the importance of university outreach initiatives on public issues.

South American river basins are endangered by mining activities and political lobbies.

The collapse of a dam retaining a mining waste reservoir caused a huge socio-environmental disaster in the Doce River Basin.

We propose restoration and conservation actions based on the creation of ecosystem services reserves.

Ecosystem services reserves must be established in areas of high taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity.

Coal mining in Santa Catarina (Brazil) has resulted in 6500ha of severely degraded land.

Restoration has been neglected for a long time, threatening environment and health.

These severely degraded sites need to be restoration priority in the Atlantic Forest.

Restoration needs realistic goals and adequate and specific techniques.

If not restored, long-term costs may be much higher than the cost of restoration.

Biodiversity monitoring in EIAs generally lack scientific rigor.

They are unable to clearly correlate biodiversity information and mining impacts.

The negligence in follow up controls can jeopardize conservation efforts.

Improving biodiversity monitoring in EIAs of mining projects is necessary.

Unfortunately, many efforts are being made to facilitate the license process.

Grasslands in South America are currently experiencing rapid and widespread impacts from activities such as urbanization and conversion to agriculture.

However, we still understand little about how such a rapidly changing landscape affects numerous grassland migratory birds on the continent.

The application of recent advances in the field of movement ecology has the potential to significantly improve our understanding of the ecology and behavior of grassland migratory birds in South America.

We review the current state of knowledge about grassland birds that migrate within South America and how the emerging field of movement ecology can contribute to understanding how to conserve and manage their populations.

Landscape metrics can be incorporated into Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

Habitat availability (HA) can assist identification of best alternative locations of powerlines.

HA outperforms other four widely used landscape metrics in the context of EIA.

HA is useful to support decision-making involved in EIA.

Dog invasions tended to be higher in agroforests located nearer a household.

Roughly 50% of invading dogs did not live in site surroundings.

Dogs are likely to perform long displacements in agroforestry landscapes.

Strategies to reduce impacts on wildlife will gain from studies on movement ecology.

We modeled the potential distribution of the pied crow in Brazil.

Landscape infrastructure was the most important predictor of pied crows.

Pied crow entry points are mainly along the coast of the Atlantic Forest.

Surveillance efforts should mainly be focused in the southeast of Brazil.

Earlier germination of E. plana may explain its high invasion potential in southern Brazil.

E. plana seeds did not affect germination of native seeds in laboratory conditions.

Seeds of some native grasses delayed E. plana germination and decreased its leave and root growth.

Our results may reveal potential options for restoring invaded grasslands in southern Brazil.

Robust information on biodiversity patterns and trends is important for public policies for nature conservation and sustainable development.

Current Brazilian policy of cuts in science puts research programs and long term monitoring of biodiversity at risk.

Reduced spending will have long-term negative impacts on capacity building in science and technology.

Cuts will reduce Brazil's capability to predict, mitigate negative impacts of, and adapt to global environmental changes.

Cuts will result in less effective and efficient conservation strategies, threatening ecosystem services and human well-being, and in failure to reach the National Targets for Biodiversity 2011–2020.