Brazilian protected areas (PAs) are at risk of downgrading in legal status and yield to pressure from mining enterprises that are interested to exploit their resources. Villén-Pérez (2018) showed that ca. 5 million hectares of Brazilian PAs would be directly impacted if the mining code would change according to three bills that have been recently considered in the parliement. Most of these losses would occur in the Amazon, where larger PAs and mining operations concentrate. This project advanced previous research of Villén-Pérez by assessing the indirect impact of mining in terms of enhanced deforestation around mining areas, and forecasting how the distribution of vertebrate threatened species in the Amazon would be affected under different legal scenarios.