Protection for Brazilian wetlands
Monday, September 14, 2015 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
The results of research carried out by Max Planck scientists provide the basis for new environmental legislation in Brazil. The country's Ministry of the Environment has developed proposals for new regulations to conserve the sensitive ecosystems found in the extensive wetlands of the Amazon region, the Pantanal and the coasts. The measures proposed for the protection of these ecologically and economically important areas are based on the definition and classification of wetlands in a study, to which researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz contributed.