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https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/reconnecting-island-habitat-with-wild-corridors-in-brazils-atlantic-forest/>
"More and more, the world’s isolated and beleaguered island habitats aren’t in
the sea or even atop mountains: they’re islands of biodiversity surrounded by
human communities. And few biomes on Earth are more fragmented than the
Atlantic Forest of Brazil, or the Mata Atlântica. Once stretching unbroken from
central Brazil to Argentina, this coastal rainforest was fractured over
centuries by logging, agriculture and urban sprawl. Around 7% of the Atlantic
Forest remains today, most of that in fragments of various sizes, out of a once
estimated 133 million hectares (329 million acres).
But there is hope for what’s left, if some of the many island habitat fragments
can be reconnected and enlarged.
That’s the mission of Saving Nature, an NGO that began regrowing its first
forest corridor linking up isolated patches of Atlantic Forest habitat in 2007.
The project, dubbed Fazenda Dourada (“Golden Farm” in Portuguese), was selected
to help support one of the region’s flagships species, the endangered golden
lion tamarin (
Leontopithecus rosalia).
“You create forest fragments and they lose species. And the smaller they are,
the more they lose,” explains conservation scientist Stuart Pimm, who founded
Saving Nature, which was called Saving Species up until 2019. The NGO has over
the years created 14 corridor and forest protection projects in six countries,
with efforts underway in South America, Asia and Africa."
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
