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Forecasting Amazon Fires

Woodwell Climate Research Center

www.woodwellclimate.org

  • Program Environment
  • Program Area Special Initiatives
  • Grant Amount $300,000
  • Grant Period April 1, 2020–March 31, 2022
  • Location Falmouth, MA, United States
  • Geographic Focus Brazil

About this grant

The Woods Hole Research Center is a premier scientific organization working globally to solve climate change, and in Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest. This grant will support the creation of forecast maps of forest degradation and fire potential for wide dissemination in Brazil to combat illegal fires and forest destruction.