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Brazil reached 2.8 Mha of native vegetation removal in 2022, the highest rate since 2008.

15.8 Mha of Legal Reserve areas need restoration in Brazil’s private rural properties, over half in the Amazon.

5.46 Mha of forest regrowth occurred in Brazil from 2016 to 2022, 40% in the Amazon and 36% in the Atlantic Forest biome.

Secondary forests in Brazil lack proper legislation to safeguard their carbon mitigation potential in the long-term.

Incentives to environmental payment, law enforcement, and legal framework needed for Brazil's 78 Mha surplus vegetation.

The federal grants and scholarships are uneven distributed between Brazilian regions.

The North region receives the least number of scholarships and grants per km² in Brazil.

The current federal budget is insufficient to cover large-scale research in the Amazon.

New national and international funds need to be created to improve Amazon biodiversity research.

Brazil’s Amazonian hydroelectric dams are a concern regarding Lula’s presidency.

Lula initiated and still defends the Belo Monte Dam, which has catastrophic impacts.

The Volta Grande, a 130-km river stretch, has lost over 80% of its natural flow.

Traditional people, including three indigenous groups, have lost food security.

Renewal of Belo Monte’s operating license tests Lula’s socioenvironmental commitment.

Bird species of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil are threatened and declining.

Declines can lead to decreased detectability and fewer observations.

We analyzed bird data from three citizen science platforms for 2000–2022.

The representation of threatened and Near Threatened species decreased through time.

We recommend future species-specific monitoring to fill survey gaps.

Bird sensitivity varies across distribution ranges and environmental gradients, shaping distinct population patterns.

Four patterns: edge, equal, core, and varying sensitivity to landscape changes.

Dispersal ability, habitat specialization, and distribution range do not fully explain sensitivity patterns.

Species' intraspecific sensitivity variations call for adaptive conservation strategies.

The Amazon basin is approaching a tipping point, and is therefore of paramount concern for biodiversity conservation.

While attention is paid to the protection of terrestrial ecosystems, freshwater efforts lag behind, despite rising threats.

Basin-wide conservation policy development, implementation, and enforcement requires commitments across all scales.

Stakeholder's participation in the system could be facilitated by supporting cross-border and cross-scalar capacity-building.

A deforestation hotspot emerges in a region planned for agricultural development in the - Amazon rainforest.

Deforestation grows in all land tenure classes, especially after the project became widespread, in 2018.

Forest loss increased in protected areas after 2018, except in Indigenous Lands, which resist as protective shields.

Contrary to economic development, it can trigger socioeconomic losses and affect essential edaphoclimatic conditions for agricultural activity.

Environmental impact studies need to be concluded before establishing the zone for agricultural development.

Overlap of priority areas for bird conservation based on three diversity components is low.

The current Protected Areas network does not cover the most important areas.

Climate change can have a low impact on priority areas for conservation.

We show priority areas where the current Protected Areas network could be expanded.

We recorded 605 mammalian carnivorans (10 spp.) across 368 Brazilian urban areas.

Hotspots of carnivorans in urban areas were in Atlantic Forest and Cerrado.

Key predictions include human development index and human population density.

Road extension, municipality size and elevation also are crucial factors.

Shade coffee plantations favor the presence of some pollinators such as hummingbirds.

Late forests and shade coffee plantations had the highest number of species, pairs of interactions and modularity.

The cattle pastures network presented the greatest robustness due to a greater presence of generalist hummingbirds.

Hummingbird visits are influenced by plant traits such as foliage height but not by the number of flowers.

Conversion of natural habitats causes changes in the hummingbird-plant interaction, affecting ecological process such as pollination.