Brazil to open up 860,000 acres of protected Amazon rainforest to logging, mining and farming
Source: Independent
The Brazilian environment ministry is proposing the release of 860,000 acres in the National Forest of Jamanxim for agricultural use, mining and logging.
The governments order was a compromise measure after protests from local residents and ecologists who claim that the bill could lead to further deforestation in the Pará area.
If approved, the legislation will create a new protection area (APA) close to Novo Progresso. Around 27 percent of the national forest would be converted into an APA, the ministry said.
Carlos Xavier, president of a lobbying group in Pará to decrease the size of the Jamanxim forest, said the APA would bring economic progress to the region.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/illegal-logging-national-forest-of-jamanxim-brazil-amazon-br-163-protests-deforestation-gisele-a7842796.html
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)for climate control and so many things. As it is, we lose acres a day, I think it said?
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)for millions and possibly billions on this planet, and with the Larsen C shelf have broken off, and the Arctic having rain above the circle, and Greenland showing more and more land mass, and the water temperature's going up, killing the plankton, and the pine trees of North America in the Mountains going to higher elevation to stay not only cool but to get moisture---------------we are screwed, we know not to do it, but we still do it............................what is wrong with us
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)and have been trying to get rid of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva since he started running for office. They were the ones who would have prevented this evil destruction of the world's lungs in the Amazon.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)and the species on this planet will not even know, because it is now a slow death.
I will have to look up and see if we still the satellites from NOAA that tells us how much air we have and how this will devastate this planet
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)The gall of them to want jobs and food!
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Also, rainforest land is useless once the trees are gone. The ground basically turns into concrete.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)that humans should just continue to multiply and spread unchecked over the remaining wild spaces of the world.
Because that's the logical conclusion of your remark.
How about more birth and population control instead, to stop overloading the planet?
If there is a god, I think they would want responsible caretaking of their creation, not untrammeled destruction.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Is that it is hypocritical for people who live in land that was once forested (and is fed from farmland that was once forest) to condemn other people for wanting to do the same thing.
Call it first world privilege.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)In 1630, the estimated area of U.S. forest land was
1,023 million acres or about 46 percent of the total
land area. Since 1630, about 256 million acres of forest
land have been converted to other usesmainly
agricultural. Nearly two-thirds of the net conversion
to other uses occurred in the second half of the 19th
century, when an average of 13 square miles (mi2
) of
forest was cleared every day for 50 years. By 1910,
the area of forest land had declined to an estimated
754 million acres, or 34 percent of the total land area.
In 2012, forest land comprised 766 million acres, or
33 percent of the total land area of the United States.
Forest area has been relatively stable since 1910, although
the population has more than tripled since then.
https://www.fia.fs.fed.us/library/brochures/docs/2012/ForestFacts_1952-2012_English.pdf
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Yeah, you'll be quite warm for the short term, but later....
magicarpet
(14,167 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)diva77
(7,656 posts)it. Very effective and small organization -- the Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
(not sure whether they have posted anything yet on the latest described in OP)
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)Brazil's Environment Min proposes shrinking Amazon reserve
Updated 7:14 pm, Friday, July 14, 2017
SAO PAULO (AP) Brazil's Environment Ministry is proposing to open up 860,000 acres of a protected reserve in the Amazon to logging, mining and agricultural use.
The bill reducing the size of the National Forest of Jamanxim was sent to Congress Thursday. It comes after President Michel Temer vetoed legislation that would have reduced protections on a larger parcel of land following pressure from environmental groups and supermodel Gisele Bundchen.
Activists worry that fewer protections will lead to increased deforestation when Brazilian rain forests are already being cut at the fastest rate in nearly a decade.
The Environment Ministry said Friday that the bill includes measures to prevent deforestation and will reduce land conflicts and promote jobs. Land conflicts are rising, partially because of incursions by loggers and farmers into protected areas.
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Brazil-s-Environment-Min-proposes-shrinking-11290074.php
(Short article, no more at link.)
blue-wave
(4,363 posts)aboriginal tribal life and a whole host of rare plants and animals. What is wrong with the human race? We place in power those who want to destroy everyone and everything.
Crowman2009
(2,499 posts)Just sayin'!