The Brazilian Amazon has witnessed a remarkable 60% drop in deforestation compared to last year. The Guardian has the story.
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by at least 60% in July compared to the same month last year, the Environment Minister, Marina Silva, has told the Guardian.
The good news comes ahead of a regional summit that aims to prevent South America’s largest biome from hitting a calamitous tipping point.
The exact figure, which is based on the Deter satellite alert system, will be released in the coming days, but independent analysts described the preliminary data as “incredible” and said the improvement compared with the same month last year could be the best since 2005.
The rapid progress highlights the importance of political change. A year ago, under the far-Right then President, Jair Bolsonaro, the Amazon was suffering one of the worst cutting and burning seasons in recent history. But since a new administration led by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power at the start of the year, the Government has penalised land grabbers, mounted paramilitary operations to drive out illegal miners, demarcated more indigenous land and created more conservation areas.
The results will bolster Lula, Marina and other Brazilian hosts of an Amazon summit designed to strengthen regional cooperation that will take place in Belém on 8th-9th August with the participation of the nine rainforest nations: Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas territory French Guiana.
Silva said the acute threat of the climate crisis, which has brought record heat to many South American countries, meant the summit had to be more than a show of unity; it needed to produce concrete and continuous results to ensure the Amazon did not reach a point where it starts to dry up and die off, which scientists have warned is drawing closer.
She has proposed that each country produces an action plan, that they jointly create a scientific panel to keep them updated with the latest data, and that they share best practices to achieve the three goals of the summit: protection of the forest and traditional peoples, and to combat inequality and strengthen democracy.
The key to the improvement in Brazil, which is home to 60% of the Amazon, she said, had been a strong target. “The main reason is the decision of Lula to aim for zero deforestation. Since then, we have created new conservation units and indigenous territories that have produced some results … Now we need to move towards a new model of prosperity that is less predatory, less damaging to local people and the forest.”
In the first six months of the year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 34%, compared to the same period last year, according to the Deter satellite alert system.
The figures for July, which is a more revealing month as it usually marks the onset of the clearance season, are still being collated, but Silva said they would show a significant improvement of “at least 60%” since the same period last year.
Independent analysts believe this might even reach as high as 70%. “It’s incredible, totally crazy,” said Tasso Azevedo, a forest engineer and founder of the MapBiomas analytical group. “This is on course to be the sharpest fall since 2005. We are still figuring out why this is happening so fast.”
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it seems just lately politicians are losing their minds, the state wishing to ban any comedy it does not like for example, yes Jimmy carrs joke was crass, but, the reaction has been nothing short of preposterous. along with the disastrous online harms bill which gets bigger everyday and looks to be a threat to privacy, speech and civil liberties, the intent to revise the human rights act, wanting to restrict protests among many things, its like, what’s in the water? Politicians have normally swung towards censorship but the last yr or two they lost their minds. Its like joe rogan in the US, again completely ridiculous reaction going into parody.
and then there are reports of Scotland wanting to cut 6 inches of school doors????
It’s not just lately. There’s been a long drift/march to where we are now. Covid has accelerated it and been enabled by it. It’s a symptom, not a cause.
Jocks are shorter than the UK average, to be fair. Full-size doors are a waste of wood up there.
Finally, the truth is coming out!
Masky Mark McClown: I will be an eternal god!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSPlmaSC1A
New Zealand Covid protest convoy jams streets near parliament | AFP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAn8DM9838
A convoy of trucks and campervans blocked streets near New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington Tuesday to protest against Covid restrictions and vaccinations, inspired by a similar demonstration in Canada. AFP News Agency
Let’s keep getting the message out
Thursday 10th February 5pm
Silent lighted walk behind one simple sign
“No More Lockdown & Covid Rules Are Barking”
Bring torches, candles and other lights
meet outside Town Hall, between Rose Inn & Costa
Wokingham RG40 1AP
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
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The comments in that Leicester mercury article are encouraging. Seems the balance in her favour.
At first I smelt a rat and thought it must be to do with her refusal to test as opposed to vax status. I was wrong. Seems it was more about having to self isolate because unvaxxed.
Long past time all these covid laws were abolished.
Hey critically ill child is in hospital, catches covid because of course and so they ban the mum because she has come into contact with said son. How can an unvaccinated person go to a hospital without coming into contact with an infected ffs?!
Aside from that is it actually law to wear masks in hospitals, even when exempt?
I was harassed by a nurse in a local hospital last year for not wearing a face nappy, despite being exempt. I filed an official complaint with the NHS, which was fobbed off. They kindly reassured me that my future NHS treatment would not be affected by my complaint (not sinister whatsoever). I replied to their email by sending a picture of the Pig Dictator not wearing a mask at Hexham Hospital.
There may have been a requirement then, I expect the “law” is different now?
Telling someone you can visit your covid positive infant in the ICU but that will render you a ‘contact of someone with covid’ and as such you will then have to stay in your home for whatever days is evil in the extreme.
Hopefully…
Soon it will be like the end of Lord of the Rings: when Our Heroes come back to the Shire and find Lobelia in prison as an unlikely hero for liberty. They raise the Shire, the hobbits have a mini-revolution, rescue Lobelia, and get Saruman out, and then sink back into their old normal, with very little notion that anything happened in the wider world that was bigger than they were.
They put CO2 monitors into the small studio rooms at school a couple of weeks ago. I asked why, and was told it was so we knew when to ‘waft the doors’ around to let some air in because ‘the plague is still around’. When I asked what number was safe, I was told they didn’t know, but the little machines would beep if it was a problem.
I put my CO2 monitor in the corner out of the way. By the end of the day it registered 3600 PPM. And I STILL don’t know (or especially care) if that was bad. The odd thing really was how no one seemed to feel it was important to know WHAT THE ACTUAL F it was for.
I live in hope that one day, when its all over, I will be like Frodo, sitting quietly with a drink and some food and no longer needing to let this stuff get to me. Where’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins when you need her?
It’s fearless hobbits with bright swords that you need. With a very few exceptions, the hobbits caved in to tyranny exactly as the Brits have done, with enough willing and active collaborators to keep Saruman’s ball rolling. But once resolute action was taken, the people rose and the tyrants were pushed over with comparatively little trouble. Their power was entirely based on bullying and intimidation. When their bluff was called, that was the end of them.
Britain needs a thorough scouring, but where our bright swords are coming from is not yet clear.
Right Annie. My world is almost entirely peopled by silly little hobbitses. And one or two worm tongues.
At least you’re not troubled with Tightass Groan, which Peaked some time ago.
Annie! Do you think this might be ‘bright swords’? https://policeonguard.ca/news-release-urgent-message-to-canadians/
How does that work? Starmer called for harder, faster, lockdowns, and is more green globalist net zero fanboi than the greenest Tory.
Just like every high profile “charity” then, it’s usually jobs for the boys/wives of the establishment connected parasite class
Obviously STAGED.
Because it’s not about online safety, it’s about CONTROL
came here to say the same. Voting for either party is just going to give you different flavours of the same s***
Yes all horses come from the same stable and the same owners always win the races. The public has to come to terms with the fact that they repeatedly vote for genuine evil, then buck that trend. Serial Traitor Dominic Raab hawking this latest Human Rights Act abomination for example. People like him need to be flushed down the toilet where they belong. Folk always pick the lowlife parasite class with no morals. We need to start really analysing the character of those running for office. Anyone from a corporate background should be placed in negative points, as corporate culture and entities are by default evil and have an enormously negative effect on our world. Corporate is the filthy seed of evil and deceit
UK “reforming” human rights law…compulsory vaccines on the horizon?
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/08/uk-reforming-human-rights-law-compulsory-vaccines-on-the-horizon/