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A Reforestation Corridor – A Future for Lemurs and Locals
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Madagascan Reforestation Corridor This shows just what can be done. What a great story. View of the landscape where the reforestation corridor project is located in eastern Madagascar. Image courtesy of TDARFAC. Excerpt A reforestation corridor project aims to reconnect 150 hectares of fragmented forest between Andasibe-Mantadia National Park and the Analamazoatra Special Reserve, home to a dozen lemur species and many other animals and plants that are found nowhere else on Earth. Led by the Mad Dog Initiative in partnership with The Dr. Abigail Ross Foundation for Applied Conservation, Association Mitsinjo and Ecovision Village, the project represents a unique convergence of science, private…
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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…
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JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal
{Earth and Leaf Editorial – JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal – JBS is the worlds largest meat company and as such is out there with the fossil fuel companies. We need to remove JBS from the food supply chain unless they are willing to change. Given that it is prepared to break its own rules that is unlikely to happen.} {extract below} JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal The world’s biggest meat company bought cattle more than 100 times from a farm that was sanctioned and fined nearly $2.5 million for illegally destroying unique and…
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Angkor Plywood the timber cartel shipping Cambodian forests internationally
{Earth and Leaf Editorial – Illegal logging in Cambodia – Angkor Plywood, the timber cartel shipping Cambodian forests internationally} {extract below} Angkor Plywood the timber cartel shipping Cambodian forests internationally Angkor Plywood, the timber cartel shipping Cambodian forests internationally STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — Rare timber species likely logged from Cambodia’s embattled protected forests have been exported to Vietnam and China for years by Angkor Plywood, one of the country’s most notorious logging companies, Mongabay can reveal. Over a year-long investigation, Mongabay has acquired documents and testimonies, as well as photo and video evidence, that show Angkor Plywood has been illegally logging timber from Cambodian protected areas and violating various laws…
