Time series satellite images from 2000 to 2021 were analyzed in a study led by researchers with the Center for Earth Observation and Modeling at the University of Oklahoma. The results showed the critical importance of Indigenous territories and protected areas in Brazilian Amazon forest conservation. The study's findings, which were recently published in Nature Sustainability, highlighted the detrimental effects of the government's newly weakened conservation laws. The Brazilian Amazon is home to the world's largest tropical forest and richest biodiversity. Since 2000, Indigenous territories and protected areas have increased substantially in the region, and by 2013; Indigenous territories and