Post by account_disabled on Mar 14, 2024 2:14:19 GMT -5
Leaders from countries with the largest tropical forest basins are meeting in the Republic of Congo Thursday to work together to protect the forests from deforestation and destruction. Delegates from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and dozens of other countries at the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville are hoping to form a coalition of leaders from the basins of the Amazon, the Congo and Borneo-Mekong in Southeast Asia to discuss how to finance the protection of their wildlife-rich regions, which are also major sites for storing planet-warming carbon dioxide. Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Republic of Congo’s environment minister, said the summit is a chance “to set in motion an historic movement and to initiate cooperation between our three basins.” She added that basin countries “have a responsibility as guardians of global biodiversity, as the lungs of the planet and as regulators of the Earth’s carbon balance” to maintain the ecosystems for both the 1.5 billion that live in the regions and the rest of humanity that rely on them. The countries in the three basins have 80% of the world’s tropical forests and two-thirds of the Earth’s biodiversity, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
But logging, forest degradation, loss of native species and extreme weather events fueled by climate change have the forests under enormous pressure that’s putting local economies and food security at risk. Despite pledges by governments and businesses to stop forest loss, deforestation Our work with these eight Indigenous coffee communities exemplifies some of the Rainforest Alliance’s core values: Listening to community needs, working in alliance with the communities BYB Directory and other partners, and promoting self-determination. “The initiative has ended but now the communities have their own relationships with all these institutions and partners,” the Rainforest Alliance’s Nayeli Almanza said. “The only way to sustain the achievements of an initiative like this—and to set the communities up to thrive into the future—is to engage the alliance.
Support Our Work continues around the world: A total of 4.1 million hectares of tropical forest was lost to deforestation in 2022, according to a report released Monday by the Forest Declaration Assessment, a group of civil society and research organizations. The vast majority of deforestation in the world – 96% – occurs in tropical regions, the report said. Agriculture, including cattle ranching and smallholder farming, is the leading driver of forest loss across the tropics, said Fran Price, a global forest practice leader at WWF. Other causes include road expansion, fires and commercial logging, which also destroy and degrade the forests, she added. Swathes of the Amazon and Indonesian rainforest are regularly up in flames — often started deliberately by those clearing land or burning felled trees — that can sometimes spread uncontrollably. Climate change and other factors have also led to drought and.
But logging, forest degradation, loss of native species and extreme weather events fueled by climate change have the forests under enormous pressure that’s putting local economies and food security at risk. Despite pledges by governments and businesses to stop forest loss, deforestation Our work with these eight Indigenous coffee communities exemplifies some of the Rainforest Alliance’s core values: Listening to community needs, working in alliance with the communities BYB Directory and other partners, and promoting self-determination. “The initiative has ended but now the communities have their own relationships with all these institutions and partners,” the Rainforest Alliance’s Nayeli Almanza said. “The only way to sustain the achievements of an initiative like this—and to set the communities up to thrive into the future—is to engage the alliance.
Support Our Work continues around the world: A total of 4.1 million hectares of tropical forest was lost to deforestation in 2022, according to a report released Monday by the Forest Declaration Assessment, a group of civil society and research organizations. The vast majority of deforestation in the world – 96% – occurs in tropical regions, the report said. Agriculture, including cattle ranching and smallholder farming, is the leading driver of forest loss across the tropics, said Fran Price, a global forest practice leader at WWF. Other causes include road expansion, fires and commercial logging, which also destroy and degrade the forests, she added. Swathes of the Amazon and Indonesian rainforest are regularly up in flames — often started deliberately by those clearing land or burning felled trees — that can sometimes spread uncontrollably. Climate change and other factors have also led to drought and.