"3 SECONDS": THE SHORT FILM THAT RECEIVED FIRST PREMIUM IN THE "FILM4CLIMATE" 2016 FESTIVAL

A film of Fernando Meirelles.
The "spoken word artist" Prince tells us (subtitles in Portuguese) how human beings, in 140 thousands years are destroying our planet of 4.5 billions years!!!


Access:

https://youtu.be/V1P2pIBMaO4

BRAZILIAN BEEF INDUSTRY IN THE AMAZON WILL TRY TO REDUCE FOREST DESTRUCTION

MADISON, Wis. — Expansion of cattle pastures has led to the destruction of huge swaths of rain forest in Brazil, home to the world’s largest herd of commercial beef cattle. But a new study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Holly Gibbs shows that market-driven “zero deforestation agreements” have dramatically influenced the behavior of ranchers and the slaughterhouses to which they sell. Publishing today [May 12, 2015] in the journal Conservation Letters, the research team – including other UW-Madison scientists, the National Wildlife Federation, and IMAZON Amazon Institute of People and the Environment — is the first to evaluate the impacts of these agreements, which are aimed at curbing the destruction of rain forests in Brazil.

The team found that these zero deforestation agreements prompted ranchers to swiftly register their properties in an environmental registry, led slaughterhouses to actively block purchases from ranches with recent deforestation, and saw lower deforestation rates among supplying ranches. “We show that concurrent public and private supply-chain pressures could be a game changer, and help to finally break the link between deforestation and beef production,” says Gibbs, a professor of geography and environmental studies in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.

However, the study also found that challenges remain to achieve zerodeforestation for beef production. Gibbs suggests that further investment by the beef industry and the Brazilian government to improve the agreements would pay high dividends for forest conservation. Historically, expansion of cattle pastures has driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, where these pastures cover about two-thirds of all the deforested land. The state of Para, where the study was based, has the largest cattle herd in the Amazon biome.

Complete report:

http://imazon.org.br/imprensa/brazilian-beef-industry-moves-to-reduce-its-destruction-of-rain-forests/?lang=en

DEFORESTATION IN THE AMAZON TENDS TO DECREASE, BUT...

The Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG) reveals in a recent publication that the loss of original forest cover of the Amazon rainforest decelerated between 2000 and 2013 relative to the 1970-2000 period. Despite this deceleration, figures remain high within the entire region for the three periods analyzed (200-2005-2010-2013). The study estimates that 222,248 km 2 were deforested in the region between 2000 y 2013, an expanse equivalent to the territory of the United Kingdom.

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HOW TO RESTORE 12 MILLIONS HECTARES IN THE AMAZONIAN REGION?

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In 2015, by signing the Paris agreement, Brazil committed itself to a bold goal: recover 12 million hectares of forests throughout the country. This goal was reaffirmed in 2017, with the launch of the national policy of recovery of native vegetation. The goal was well received and is considered as one of the main strategies of Brazil to contain global warming and come to a net zero deforestation in Brazil. There's only one problem: we still don't know how to do a restoration of forests that size.

An alliance formed by NGOs, forest companies and State Governments of the Amazon region decided to face this challenge. The group signed a Pact for the restoration of forests in the Amazon on Monday (30), in Belém, Pará. The idea is to get the role the good intentions of recovering native forest.

Baby Jaguar was born in Foz do Iguaçu.

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