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"The vital role forests play in providing habitat for biodiversity, storing
carbon and supporting cultures also buttresses global society economically and
socially, according to a new report by authors at the International Union of
Forest Research Organizations.
But in making those vital connections, the authors also bring together data
showing how humanity’s cumulative negative impacts on forests threaten both
their resilience and our own.
Over time, the researchers warn, human impacts on forests are continuing to
build toward dangerous tipping points that could lead to collapse and the loss
of crucial services including carbon sequestration and the provision of
freshwater.
“We cannot have a forest that has compromised resilience and expect it to
continue to provide the benefits that we’ve come to expect and rely on as
humanity,” Craig Allen, a resilience scientist and research professor at the
University of Nebraska in the U.S. and a report lead author, said at its launch
on June 5.
The authors also conclude that while the communities that live in or near
forests are often the first to feel negative effects from forest collapse, the
impacts ripple outward and will be much broader in the future.
“It’s not only the forest-dependent communities, but proximate communities and
the whole planet” that are vulnerable to ecosystem collapse, said Joice
Ferreira, an Amazon Rainforest researcher at Embrapa, the Brazilian
government’s agricultural research agency. “We are very much interconnected.”"
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
