Q: How can we fight Deforestation around the world?
A: Provide an income to landowners for leaving their land as forest, paying them to keep it forest. How can that be done and paid for / funded?
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#sustainability #ForestPreservation #biodiversityloss #nature
#tropicalforests #trailcam
#biology #forest #forests
Q: How can we fight Deforestation around the world?
A: Provide an income to landowners for leaving their land as forest, paying them to keep it forest. How can that be done and paid for / funded?
Read or listen:
#sustainability #ForestPreservation #biodiversityloss #nature
#tropicalforests #trailcam
#biology #forest #forests
https://sparkssustainability.com/2025/03/19/preserving-forests-around-the-world/
Extinction in tropical forests. This study uses a standardized pan-tropical dataset of 239 mammal species from 37 forests in 3 continents to reveal selective #extinction occurring within #TropicalForests triggered by #anthropogenic pressure in the broader landscape #plosbiology https://plos.io/4jVaeyZ
New article on trait-environment relationships in tropical forests of French Guiana.
Marion Boisseaux has published a new paper from her PhD thesis (part of the METRADICA project). While environment didn't explain much of the trait value variation when traits were considered individually, it had a strong influence on trait syndromes.
Blog post âĄď¸ https://ecology.ghislainv.fr/news.html#article-boisseaux2025-trait-environment
Article âĄď¸ https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14679 #AMAPlab #Ecology #TropicalForests #article
Interesting on-line seminar:
Leveraging Natural Regeneration of Tropical Forests to Achieve Large-scale Forest Restoration
Dr. Robin Chazdon
November 20, at 4:00 pm UTC
https://www.biogeography.org/news/news/november-2024-funk-biogeography-seminar-robin-chazdon/
#biogeography #TropicalForests #Conservation
Amazon deforestation in Brazil plunges 31% to lowest level in 9 yearsâŚ
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped by 30.6% over the past year, reaching the lowest level of destruction in nine years... Mongabay #deforestation #brazil #amazon #environment #conservation #forests #tropicalforests
Phys.org: New temperature conditions found in two thirds of key tropical forestsâŚ
Two thirds of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in tropical forests are experiencing new temperature conditions as our climate changes, research shows... phys.org #temperatures #biodiversity #ecology #tropicalforests #climatechange
Honduras: Anti-mining activist Juan Lopez shot dead
#JuanLopez is the fourth member of an #environmental #activism group based in in #Tocoa to be killed since 2023.
President #XiomaraCastro condemned the murder and has ordered an investigation.
September 16, 2024
"An #AntiMining #EnvironmentalActivist in #Honduras who protested to preserve #TropicalForests and rivers was killed over the weekend, even after warnings to better ensure his safety.
"Juan Lopez, 46, was gunned down as he left church Saturday in the northeastern town of Tocoa, police said on Sunday.
"Honduran President Xiomara Castro condmened the apparent murder of Lopez, a member of the Libre party she's allied to, in comments online.
"'We condemn the vile murder of our comrade and environmental leader Juan Lopez in Tocoa, Colon,' she said. 'I have ordered that all the capabilities of law enforcement be used to clarify this tragedy and identify those responsible.'
Multiple members of Lopez's enviromental organization killed
"Lopez belonged to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, an environmental organization in Tocoa on the country's Atlantic coast.
"Three other members of the group were killed last year in what the organization saw as retaliation.
"The group had suffered threats and harassment for years amid efforts to preserve the #Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, and the #CarlosEscaleras #Nature Reserve, as the presence of #mining and #hydroelectric companies increased.
"Honduran Attorney General Johel Zelaya said the 'reprehensible' murder would not go unpunished, and paid tribute to Lopez's #activism.
"'His life was an example of struggle. He never gave up in his incessant battle, hand-in-hand with the people to preserve natural resources,' Zelaya said on X.
Lopez aware of risks of his activism
"An outspoken member of the ruling #LibreParty, Lopez had recently publicly called for the resignation of Libre officials caught on video negotiating bribes with drug traffickers in 2013.
"Carlos Zelaya, a brother-in-law of president Castro, was caught up in that video. He resigned his seat in congress after admitting he took part in that meeting with drug gangsters.
"'If you leave home, you always have in mind that you do not know what might happen, if you are going to return,' Lopez had said in 2021 when speaking of his activism with AFP.
"Lopez had also raised the alarm himself earlier in the year, saying he had noticed two people on motorbikes observing him in locations around his home.
Activist deaths high in Latin America
"Global Witness, a British NGO, says Honduras is one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmental activists.
"#LatinAmerica accounted for 85% of all the world's environmentalists who were killed last year, with 18 deaths registered in Honduras, according to #GlobalWitness.
"The United Nations resident coordinator in Honduras, Alice Shackelford, said Lopez had been threatened for his activism and praised his determination to stand up to powerful interests.
"'We condemn the terrible murder of Juan Lopez, a human rights defender threatened for his work,' she said in a post."
km/msh (AFP, Reuters)
https://www.dw.com/en/honduras-anti-mining-activist-juan-lopez-shot-dead/a-70223466
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #Greenwashing #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods
Ozone pollution reduces yearly tropical forest growth by 5.1%, study findsâŚ
Ozone gas is reducing the growth of tropical forestsâleaving an estimated 290 million tonnes of #carbon uncaptured each year, new #research shows... phys.org #ozone #tropicalforests #forests #climatechange #ozonepollution
Water time for the plants, took the opportunity to take a couple of snapshots.
#plants #housePlants #greenTherapy #monstera #pothos #tropical #TropicalForests
Five of the worldâs biggest banks are âgreenwashingâ their role in the destruction of the Amazon, according to a report that indicates that their environmental and social guidelines fail to cover more than 70% of the rainforest... #greenwashing #amazonforest #AmazonDestruction #environment #TropicalForests #environmentaldestruction https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/worlds-top-banks-greenwashing-their-role-in-destruction-of-the-amazon
"As some countries show political will to reduce forest loss and others do not, the frontiers of forest loss are shifting: the notable reductions in Brazil and Colombia were counteracted by sharp increases in forest loss in Bolivia, Laos and Nicaragua, and more modest increases in other countries." - World Resources Institute
https://research.wri.org/gfr/latest-analysis-deforestation-trends #treecover #TropicalForests
#Bulldozed tracks and informal byways in #TropicalForests and #PalmOil plantations âalmost alwaysâ an indicator of future #deforestation, say researchers.
Network of #GhostRoads paves the way for levelling #AsiaPacific #Rainforests
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/13/ghost-roads-pave-way-for-deforestation-rainforest-asia-pacific-aoe
A new study indicates that significant networks of informal, unmapped and unregulated roads sprawl into forest-rich regions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Slipping beneath the purview of environmental governance, construction of these âghost roadsâ typically precede sharp spikes in deforestation and represent blind spots in zoning and law enforcement, the study says.
By Carolyn Cowan
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/unseen-and-unregulated-ghost-roads-carve-up-asia-pacific-tropical-forests/
The overall rate of primary forest loss across the tropics remained stubbornly high in 2023, putting the world well off track from its net-zero deforestation target by 2030, according to a new report from the World Resources Institute.
The few bright spots were Brazil and Colombia, where changes in political leadership helped drive down deforestation rates in the Amazon.
By Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/tropical-forest-loss-puts-2030-zero-deforestation-target-further-out-of-reach/
#News #Conservation #Environment #TropicalForests #Deforestation #Forests
new #dataset in #datasuds
Rodda, Suraj Reddy et al. 2024, "South Asian and Central African #maps from: #LiDAR-based reference #aboveground #biomass maps for #tropicalforests of #SouthAsia and #CentralAfrica", #africa #asia #researchdata #openscience https://doi.org/10.23708/H2MHXF
Collecting plant material in the Parc de la Rivière Bleue https://ecology.ghislainv.fr/news.html#collect-parc-riviere-bleue
@Cirad #AMAPlab #Ecology #TropicalForests #fieldwork
#AmazonForests poisoned by #mercury from #GoldMining
Study finds unprecedented levels of #MercuryPollution
January 28, 2022
by Cheryl Walker
"Wake Forest faculty in the Universityâs Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, and its Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA) are part of an international team of researchers who have discovered that gold mining in the Amazon rainforest is causing exceptionally high levels of mercury pollution in the old-growth rainforest near the mining sites.
"The total mercury concentrations in a forested area in #Peruâs #LosAmigosConservationConcession were the highest ever recorded.
"The study, 'Amazon Forests Capture High Levels of Atmospheric Mercury Pollution From #ArtisanalGoldMining,' appears Jan. 28 in the journal Nature Communications. The research team was led by Jacqueline R. Gerson, as a Ph.D. student at Duke University.
âWhat this study found was that the wildest forests left on earth are capturing mercury released by artisanal mining, and at superfund-site levels,â said Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Presidential Chair of Conservation Biology and Director of Wake Forestâs Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability. 'The wildlife and humans that live within these wild forests are poisoned as well, with effects that we are just beginning to understand.'
"''This study reveals, for the first time, the mechanism of how mercury released into the air by gold mining contaminates #TropicalForests and forest #soils,' Fernandez said. âThis atmospheric mercury, which is either deposited on to leaves or absorbed by leaves, eventually falls to the ground and gets incorporated into forest soils.'
"The region of #MadreDeDios is considered a global #biodiversity hotspot, but in recent decades has suffered an unprecedented #GoldRush. mining is doing irreversible damage to one of the worldâs largest remaining pieces of #TropicalRainforest and threatening its survival. In the Madre de Dios region of Peru, east of the Andes Mountains, nearly 250,000 acres of rainforest, roughly the size of Dallas, Texas, have been razed and transformed into somewhere that looks like a desert pockmarked by tens of thousands of mercury contaminated mining ponds by illegal #GoldMining.
"Gold miners use toxic mercury to pull flakes of gold out of the river sediment. Then, they separate the gold from the mercury using open fire ovens. The heat melts the gold and turns the mercury to a toxic vapor.
"'People had a lot of ideas about where mercury might be going in these tropical landscapes, and they turned out to be wrong,' Silman said. 'The paper shows that mercury isnât staying in the mining zone, but rather that trees are scrubbing mercury from the air and transferring it into forest #ecosystems, and into forest wildlife and peoples, where it moves up the food chain with unknown effects.'
"The study also reveals how these contaminated soils serve as a repository for this deposited mercury, preventing. or at least slowing, its transfer into rivers and lakes where it is transformed into a more toxic form of mercury, #Methylmercury, and contaminate aquatic food webs."
https://news.wfu.edu/2022/01/28/amazon-forests-poisoned-by-mercury-from-gold-mining/
Amazonian forests đ´đł in Brazilâ
âFour out of every five trees there have been felledâŚâ leading to fears of #extinction for many #tree species, plus the animals living there.
This area needs protection and restoration now.
