the marine and coastal protected areas project supported by the global environment facility will contribute to this goal federal protected areas cover nearly of threatened flora and fauna species chapter while brazil needs to keep a tight focus on the amazon biome future efforts will need to concentrate on marine areas and the other terrestrial biomes notably cerrado and caatinga where protection through landuse zoning is low and the most future deforestation is expected soaresfilho et al the ecosystem representation of conservation may appear more balanced once the setaside areas as required under the forest code are implemented and monitored it has also been driven by a desire to recognise traditional and local community rights since the mid s more than km of federal and statelevel protected areas have been created in the amazon including along the socalled deforestation arc comprising the eastern and southern edges of the forests in the states of rondonia mato grosso and para and in areas expecting road infrastructure development