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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/lula-wants-to-mirror-amazons-lessons-in-all-biomes-but-challenges-await/>
"Between 2004 and 2012, Brazil was able to slash deforestation by nearly 84%
with a series of policies known as PPCDAm, a major instrument in reducing
environmental destruction in the Amazon Rainforest.
Built on a three-pronged strategy centered on land-use planning, environmental
monitoring and fostering sustainable production, PPCDAm created 44 million
hectares (108.7 million acres) of Indigenous lands and 25 million hectares
(61.8 million acres) of conservation units, and it also reinforced a crackdown
on environmental crime, which led to the issue of more than 41,000 fines
totaling $3.9 billion.
Thanks to these measures, deforestation rates in the Amazon fell from 27,772
square kilometers (10,723 square miles) in 2004 — the second-highest rate since
monitoring began in 1988 — to 4,571 square kilometers (1,765 square miles) in
2012, the lowest level ever recorded. A study from the University of Brasília
found that the implementation of PPCDAm saved a total of 196,000 km2 (75,676
mi2) of forest from being cleared between 2005 and 2015, an area equivalent to
more than twice the size of Portugal.
Now, Brazil’s new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and his environmental
and climate change minister, Marina Silva, are applying the logic of PPCDAm to
all local biomes — the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado savanna, Atlantic Forest,
semi-arid Caatinga, Pampas grasslands and Pantanal wetlands — in a new decree
that went into effect on Jan. 1."
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
