Résumé
Ongoing deforestation in tropical regions has given rise to numerous commitments in countries of both the Global North and Global South: The New York Declaration on Forests, the Brazilian Soy Moratorium, the European Union Deforestation Regulation, zero-deforestation agreements in Colombia, etc. Implementing those commitments faces many obstacles and the difference between illegal deforestation and legal deforestation, i.e. that authorized by the regulatory framework of each country, is often glossed over in national or international deforestation monitoring systems. These two observations are in fact linked. It is essential to distinguish between legal and illegal deforestation so that commitments effectively result in a sustained reduction of all types of deforestation in tropical regions. In the Amazon, that distinction requires the coordination of information from institutions on different levels.