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Deforestation Accounts for Major Amazon Rainfall Decline
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Study finds deforestation accounts for major Amazon rainfall decline Amazon rainfall decline can be stopped. We must support the Amazonian countries so they can end mining, soya production for livestock feed and end beef ranching. Logging activity in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, with trees already tagged and waiting for transportation. Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora. Excerpt Amazon Rainfall Decline A study looking at land and atmosphere interactions in the Amazon Basin across four decades found that 52-72% of the rainfall decline in the southern Amazon is due to large-scale deforestation. Between 1980 and 2019, annual precipitation in the southern Amazon declined by 8-11%,…
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The Cost of Community Conservation in the Amazon
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Community Conservation Community Conservation in the Amazon. Mongabay is such a great source of information. This is a great project which in time we would love to help support financially. The world needs to look at just transition for these fishermen. Read on…. Community Conservation in action on the Jurua Extract In Brazil’s western Amazon, community-led efforts to protect the pirarucu, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, bring conservation benefits that extend into upland ecosystems. A study in Nature Sustainability found that by patrolling oxbow lakes along the Juruá River, communities effectively protect a mean area 86 times larger than the lakes…
