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Brazil's regulations governing deforestation and logging are often circumvented.

Agreements with soy and beef companies are important but need strengthening.

Effectiveness of commodity agreements is diminished by laundering and leakage.

Timber harvest and transportation permits are open to widespread fraud.

Ways exist to reduce circumvention of commodity agreements and regulations.

Legal Reserves represent almost one third of all remaining native vegetation in Brazil.

There is no solid argument, evidence or theory that support that Legal Reserve extinction will favor Brazil development.

The extinction of Legal Reserves will lead to a huge increase in native vegetation loss, with blatant negative consequences on biodiversity and ecosystem services provision.

Legal Reserves are a key-component for effective and less expensive nature-based solutions.

Legal Reserves should be considered as assets for the development of Brazil rather than liabilities.

First review on abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) in Brazil.

The ALDFG record began in the 1990s along beach strips.

Studies focusing on underwater debris began in the 2000s and ALDFG were found in all categories applied for the marine litter collected in these research efforts.

Only 9 studies are focused on ALDFG and started from 2009 onwards.

We highlight what is known, the most studied areas, and what are the knowledge gaps about ALDFG.

Niche modelling and Alpha and Beta diversity analyses in Brazilian Cerrado.

Biotic homogenization in Southern Cerrado.

Species richness loss throughout Cerrado.

Current Brazilian environmental legislation fails to consider the habitat heterogeneity of the cerrado biome.

Legal reserves are severely biased in protecting forest environments at the expense of natural cerrado vegetation, thereby neglecting open-habitat biotas that are rapidly succumbing to agricultural conversion.

Protected areas and Indigenous Lands contain a higher proportion of non-forest habitat than Legal Reserves within private landholdings.

Signatory parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity declared daring commitments to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 14.

United Nations seems optimistic with the progress achieved towards SDG 14.

However, major challenges presented by signatory governments are slowing down or compromising the achievement of the targets.

Here we present initiatives and examples that give us hope towards the sustainability of the world's marine biodiversity.

Ecological systems are interlinked through fluxes of organisms, energy, and matter.

These spatial interdependencies form the basis of metaecological theory.

Applications in conservation and environmental management are apparent but lag behind.

Narrowing this gap requires incorporating realism and scenarios of environmental change.

Interacting scientists, practitioners and decision-makers will guide this development.

Unsustainable land use changes threaten the Pantanal wetlands.

Origins of soda lakes in southern Pantanal (Nhecolândia) have recently been unveiled.

Nhecolândia's soda lakes are carbon sinks with poorly known geomicrobiology.

Conservation of soda lakes can benefit organic sustainable beef production.

Soda lake extremophiles may be analogs to early life and the deep biosphere.