Sustainably managing the Amazon region is essential to mitigating global climate change and to preserving the biological and cultural diversity of the region. After promising reductions in degradation in the 2010s, a return to historically high levels of land conversion and deforestation during the past 5 years has severely undermined these goals. This land conversion — primarily the result of logging, mining and ranching — has generated social, economic and environmental burdens across scales1. Encouragingly, signs of recovery towards Amazon protection are appearing under Brazil’s current federal administration. But amid the drop in deforestation, a new threat is on the rise: uncontrolled fires.
Amazon Highlights 8 – 10 reasons for zero legal and illegal deforestation in the Amazon
Amazon Highlights 8 – 10 reasons for zero legal and illegal deforestation in the Amazon
In regard to the reduction of Amazonian deforestation and its associated emissions, the established target must urgently be fulfilled much before 2030, and further to this: the end of legal removal of native vegetation of the region must be sought. This newsletter lists the top ten reasons for putting an end to the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.