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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.

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 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.

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.

The recent resurgence of deforestation in the Cerrado results from misguided policies and environmental negligence.

Lack of environmental and social safeguards is driving the biome toward an irreversible tipping point.

Licenses for vegetation clearance on private lands must carefully evaluate the ownership chain.

Agribusiness plays a key role in strengthening conservation efforts in the Cerrado.

A new economic model prioritizing environmental responsibility and social justice is urgently needed.

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.

eDNA metabarcoding allows cost-effective biodiversity analysis and monitoring.

eDNA focuses on defining MOTUs/ASVs, but more information is intrinsic to such data.

α and β diversity patterns from eDNA are enhanced by explicit phylogenetic analyses.

Diversity gradients of microeukaryotes in Araguaia River illustrate these patterns.

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.

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.

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.