Here are a few of the ways nature supports human health. View all posts about: Forests. Forest carbon offsets can help reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions — but they remain contentious in the world of climate policy. Here are 3 myths about them, debunked. More than 30 financial institutions pledged to eliminate deforestation driven by agriculture from their portfolios and increase investments in nature-based solutions by View all posts about: Indigenous Peoples. Here are three recent conservation success stories you should know about.
This month, Conservation News is revisiting some of the most interesting and significant stories and issues we covered in Our Future Forests—Amazonia Verde is working to conserve up to 12 percent of the Amazon — about 73 million hectares million acres — by Supported by the government of France, the project is one of the conservation priorities of the Alliance for the Protection of Tropical Forests, an initiative for the protection, restoration and sustainable management of tropical forests.
Can you actually make money from keeping forests standing? In the Facebook twitter YouTube Instagram. Please enter a valid email. Thank you for joining the CI Community. Single Donation Monthly Donation. There are around 50, large dams currently in operation and millions of smaller ones throughout the world.
We're working to make sure dams are carefully planned and managed so their negative impact is reduced. Climate change is a global issue. Hence, we are working internationally to influence governments to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions and help developing countries cope with a changing climate.
We engage with financial institutions to help them to contribute to real environmental change. Back in , we launched a Forest Campaign aimed at making responsible forest trade the norm in the UK market.
By working alongside businesses we set out to transform timber markets in the UK and Europe. The campaign was a huge success, with over , supporters, 50 influential businesses and two major trade associations signing up to show their support. We are working in Colombia and in Acre and Amazonas States in Brazil to foster landscape approaches and improve governance. Amazon is one of the richest and the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. Therefore, all of our conservation efforts in the Amazon aims to protect the local wildlife, rainforests, and freshwater habitats.
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Choose monthly donation Prefer a one-off donation? Choose one-off donation Prefer a monthly donation? The Amazon. Why the Amazon is so important. Sarah Hutchison Head of Brazil and Amazon Unit "We are only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unveiling the incredible species that live in the Amazon and understanding the vital role it plays in helping regulate our climate.
About the Amazon. Challenges facing the Amazon. The economic transformation of the Amazon based on the conversion and degradation of its natural habitat is gaining momentum. Yet, as those forces grow in strength, we are also finding that the Amazon plays a critical role in maintaining climate function regionally and globally, a contribution which everyone—rich or poor—depends on. Given the enormous amount of carbon stored in the forests of the Amazon, there is tremendous potential to alter global climate if not properly stewarded.
The Amazon contains billion metric tons of carbon, the release of even a portion of which would accelerate global warming significantly. Currently, land conversion and deforestation in the Amazon release up to 0. Ranitomeya benedicta, new poison frog species. Amazing discoveries: new species found in the Amazon Between and , species of plants and vertebrates were identified for the first time.
Amazon Basin and Amazon Biome. Not just green wilderness So is the Amazon River Basin merely a huge, uniform expanse of rainforest, bisected by a massive river? Such a perception of the area merely scratches the surface of what is in reality a highly complex and dynamic environment.
The basin actually encompasses a variety of landscapes and ecosystems. When the Andes Mountains began to rise due to great pressure on the tectonic plates along the eastern side of the South American continent about 20 million years ago 6 , this emerging mass blocked the flow of the Amazon River. Freshwater lakes formed as a result, and the flow of the river gradually reversed to its current eastern course.
About 10 million years ago, the river reached the Atlantic Ocean, close to the city of Belem in Brazil. Eastern trade winds that blow from the Atlantic Ocean account for about half of the rainfall, with the other half due to evapotranspiration - the loss of water from the soil by evaporation and through transpiration from plants 10 - in the Amazon River Basin.
HydroSHED of the Amazon - high-resolution elevation data used to create a global hydrological database. Click to enlarge.
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