TROPICAL DEFORESTATION Who will watch the Amazon?Stokstad, ErikScience
A top priority is to protect their territory, located in the south of Amazonas state, a hotspot of land-grabbing and illegal deforestation. Mandeí fears they could be invaded the same way as the Uru-eu-wao-wao village where she grew up. Once immersed in t...
For the past 25 years, the Achuar have worked in partnership with Kapawi Ecolodge's guests to conserve and protect the Sacred Headwaters region of the Ecuadorian Amazon from extraction and deforestation industries. OUR TRIPS Discover the Amazon at your own pace through our flexible 4, 5 and 8-...
In line with the Amazon’s deforestation trend, NF loss increased from 2013 onward (Fig.1b). From 2013 to 2022, both NF loss and deforestation exhibited a rate of 0.21 km2.km-2.y-1(relative to their area extents). Several factors could have contributed to this rise, including the ...
resulting in a net AGB loss of 0.67 Pg C. Forest degradation (73%) contributed three times more to the gross AGB loss than deforestation (27%), given that the areal extent of degradation exceeds that of deforestation. This indicates that forest degradation has become the largest process...
whereas forests in the south-western Amazon are particularly dependent on transpired-water subsidies. These forest-rainfall cascades buffer the effects of drought and reveal a mechanism by which deforestation can compromise the resilience of the Amazon forest system in the face of future climatic extrem...
Bolsonaro, who has previously said he is not “Captain Chainsaw” in reference to Amazon deforestation, has dismissed accusations of responsibility for the fires. On Wednesday, he speculated that the Amazon fires could have been caused by nonprofit organizations who are suffering from lack of fundin...
"Eight percent of the Amazon rainforest has already been lost to deforestation. We cannot let this continue. The consequences for people and the planet would be devastating," noted Johnson. "I hope many people will watch the film, experience the amazing Amazon, and be inspired as I am to ...
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facility location–allocation problem; drones; wildfires; deforestation; environmental emergency response; Amazon rainforest1. Introduction The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and plays an important role in managing the Earth’s natural systems. However, climate change is altering the ...