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PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin

After the second-highest clearance year in the record, Brazil launches a federal action plan combining enforcement, protected area creation, property embargoes and credit conditionality, and INPE begins DETER, a near-real-time alert system that flags new clearance within days so inspectors can be dispatched. The pairing matters: the plan is only enforceable because the alerts are fast.

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Recorded on PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)

  1. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
  2. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
  3. PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin
  4. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
  5. INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data
  6. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
  7. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade

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