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https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/01/not-all-parts-of-the-rainforest-have-suffered-equally-satellite-images-plot-a-path-for-amazon-protection/>
"Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s return to the Brazilian presidency has been
welcomed by environmentalists campaigning to save what remains of the Amazon’s
jungles. Now, new research underscores how his electoral victory over incumbent
Jair Bolsonaro could be good news for the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
In the last two decades, the amount of officially protected forests in the
Brazilian Amazon has nearly doubled, to encompass half of the region’s forests.
For much of that time, including da Silva’s presidency, forests fared better
inside those protected zones. But satellite imagery shows the fate of these
lands reversed course over Bolsonaro’s four-year term, which ran from 2019 to
the end of 2022. Between 2018 and 2021 forests inside these supposed protected
areas disappeared faster than in other parts of the Amazon.
“Legal designations are important, but if the law is not enforced, the intended
protection of forests and biodiversity will be illusional,” said Fabio de Sa e
Silva, an expert in Brazilian public policy at the University of Oklahoma (OU).
“This is an area in which Brazil is knowingly failing.”
The fate of these lands is of global significance. The Amazon harbors among the
largest number of different species on the planet. Trees and bushes there add
up the world’s biggest concentration of aboveground biomass. That makes it
important for countering both the extinction crisis and climate change."
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Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
