Brazil

Amazon basin · 158 protected areas · 411 Indigenous territories

The numbers

  • Forest cover, whole country: 59.0% of land (2023, World Bank — national, not basin-only)
  • Land area, whole country: 8,358,140 km² (2023)
  • Population, whole country: 212,812,405 (2025)
  • Protected areas in the basin: 158, 689,793 km² by GIS area (overlapping designations are summed, not dissolved)
  • Indigenous territories in the basin: 411, 1,240,645 km² by GIS area
  • Distinct illegal-mining scars centred inside any of its 438 page areas: 2,661
  • Distinct DETER alerts centred inside those areas (12 months, from the 6,000 largest in the Legal Amazon): 185

As of 2026-09-12. Species-at-risk counts and live alert/fire totals are on the dashboard's country card.

Under the most pressure

Protected areas (158)

Indigenous territories with a page (280 largest of 411)

See it live

Defended by people in Brazil

Satellites only watch; these organisations work on the ground. Links go to their own sites — Canopy Watch does not receive or process any funds. More on the Help page.

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