in addition indigenous lands cover about of the territory mostly in the amazon region brazil thus has already exceeded the aichi target of protecting at least of its terrestrial and inland water areas by the amazon region protected areas arpa programme launched in has been at the heart of this progress one of the world s largest tropical forest conservation programmes it created more than km of federal and statelevel protected areas in the biome including along the socalled deforestation arc and in areas expecting road infrastructure development the arpa programme complemented the ppcdam in reducing deforestation in the region figure and in turn greatly contributed to the achievement of brazil s climate change goals see also sections and more efforts thus are needed in areas outside the amazon biome if brazil is to meet its ambitious targets of protecting at least of the amazon and of the other terrestrial biomes by