Lima, Gedeone FerreiraCorrea Santos, Jeater Waldemar MacielAlbertin, Ricardo MassuloMartínez Miranzo, BeatrizSouza, Franco L.Angeoletto, Fabio2025-06-242025-06-242023Lima, G.F.; Correa Santos, J.W.M.; Albertin, R.M.; Martínez-Miranzo, B.; Souza, F.L.; Angeoletto, F. Backyards Are a Way to Promote Environmental Justice and Biodiversity Conservation in Brazilian Cities. Diversity 2023, 15, 815. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/d150708151424-281810.3390/d15070815https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121720This research was funded by Maria Zambrano UCM contract, financed by the Ministry of Universities with Next Generation funds from the European (B.M.M.); Brazilian National Council Research (CNPq), grant number 307599/2021-3 (F.L.S.) and Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (FUNDECT), grant number 71/011.029/2022 (F.A.). The APC was funded by Fabio Angeoletto.Brazilian cities feature quite unequal neighborhoods. Middle-class neighborhoods have better infrastructure than those inhabited by low-income families. These inequalities are not limited to social and economic scopes; they also reach the environmental one. Tree cover in these neighborhoods is often correlated to residents’ socioeconomic status. Injustice in access to trees deprives Brazilians of their ecosystem services. Furthermore, the scarcity of tree cover in the poorest neighborhoods means less support for biodiversity. Thus, backyards can be planned to form vegetation patches capable of providing urban populations with access to green areas, as well as working as wildlife habitats.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/journal articlehttps://doi.org/10.3390/d15070815https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/7/815open access911.375316.334.56574BackyardsUrban biodiversityEnvironmental injusticeUrban ecological corridorsUrban ecologyBrazilian citiesBrazilMedio ambiente naturalGeografía humanaEcología (Biología)5403 Geografía Humana2410.05 Ecología Humana6201.03 Urbanismo