#PrayForAmazonia
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#PrayForAmazonia
The Amazon wildfires are particularly alarming as scientists have said that trees are the planet’s first line of defense against global warming. Due to deforestation, scientists estimate that we are near the tipping point where the Amazon can no longer function as a carbon sink. Brazil’s Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and a vital carbon store. Cutting down trees in the rainforest produces 8% of net global emissions, more than the entire European Union.
But the rainforest has experienced a record number of fires this year, with 72,843 reported so far. While the state of Amazonas has declared an emergency (with the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia trending on social media this week), Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has done little to fight the blaze, even as the haze from the fires blackened the sky hundreds of miles away in São Paulo. Meanwhile, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said its satellite data showed an 84% increase in wildfires in the Amazon rainforest from the same period in 2018.
After reporting that number and an 88% increase in the deforestation rate in the Amazon, INPE’s director, Ricardo Galvão, was ousted from his job. According to the BBC, conservationists claim Bolsonaro has encouraged logging and farming in the Amazon, two activities that can lead to fires.
(www.fastcompany.com)
Together we are always stronger and can make a difference which this planet so urgently needs.
Our aim is to protect and conserve the Amazon rainforest as well as its habitats.
Please help us support those in need through an emergency situation in the Amazon rainforest.
This is not just a strong environmental moment for Brazil and the world but just as much a political one as well.
As long as there are no active campaigns to particularly support the emergency situation happening in Brazil right now, (which there aren't as of now) the Floresta Association will send all donations to Rainforest Alliance https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/ who are doing an amazing job to stop deforestation and are on the front lines in regards to fighting those fires.
Photo credit:
Especial para 90minutos.co / Reedes sociales
#PrayForAmazonia
The Amazon wildfires are particularly alarming as scientists have said that trees are the planet’s first line of defense against global warming. Due to deforestation, scientists estimate that we are near the tipping point where the Amazon can no longer function as a carbon sink. Brazil’s Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and a vital carbon store. Cutting down trees in the rainforest produces 8% of net global emissions, more than the entire European Union.
But the rainforest has experienced a record number of fires this year, with 72,843 reported so far. While the state of Amazonas has declared an emergency (with the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia trending on social media this week), Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has done little to fight the blaze, even as the haze from the fires blackened the sky hundreds of miles away in São Paulo. Meanwhile, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said its satellite data showed an 84% increase in wildfires in the Amazon rainforest from the same period in 2018.
After reporting that number and an 88% increase in the deforestation rate in the Amazon, INPE’s director, Ricardo Galvão, was ousted from his job. According to the BBC, conservationists claim Bolsonaro has encouraged logging and farming in the Amazon, two activities that can lead to fires.
(www.fastcompany.com)
Together we are always stronger and can make a difference which this planet so urgently needs.
Our aim is to protect and conserve the Amazon rainforest as well as its habitats.
Please help us support those in need through an emergency situation in the Amazon rainforest.
This is not just a strong environmental moment for Brazil and the world but just as much a political one as well.
As long as there are no active campaigns to particularly support the emergency situation happening in Brazil right now, (which there aren't as of now) the Floresta Association will send all donations to Rainforest Alliance https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/ who are doing an amazing job to stop deforestation and are on the front lines in regards to fighting those fires.
Photo credit:
Especial para 90minutos.co / Reedes sociales
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