Amazon rainforest: management strategies
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- Created on: 20-12-21 15:26
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- Amazon rainforest: Water & Carbon management strategies
- Legislation
- REDD+
- UN's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation & Degradation scheme
- Payment to tribes for protecting rainforest & abandoning logging
- 2009: Suri tribe first to join the scheme
- Carbon credits can be purchased by international companies which have exceeded their carbon emission quotas
- 2017 Paris Agreement
- Reached at UN Climate Change Conference
- Norway paid $1 billion to the Amazon fund (2017)
- Norway, Germany and UK have pledged $5 billion over next 5 years to reduce deforestation
- Amazon Basin Conser-vation Initiative
- US provided Brazil with $10.5 million in 2017
- 'Nossa Natureza' programme (1989)
- Mapping & zoning study to determine areas to be protected
- IBAMA created (Environmental Law Enforcement Agency)
- CITES: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (2003)
- 182 signatories: reduce trade of Amazonian timber
- Soy moratorium (2006)
- TNCs agree not to purchase soy from illegally deforested land
- REDD+
- Reforestation
- Sustainable forestry scheme
- 1000km2 commercial timber plantation on govt-owned, deforested land
- 20 million faast-growing, tropical hardwood seedlings
- 4000 small holdings, to mature over a period of 25 years
- Financial assistance given to small holders for land prep, planting and maintenance
- Several projects sponsored by local authorities, NGOs and businesses are underway, eg Parica project in Rondonia, W. Amazon
- Progress is slow
- Sustainable forestry scheme
- Improved agriculture
- Farming
- Farming is the main cause of deforestation in Amazonia
- New land is constantly deforested because permanent cultivation is unsustainable due to low fertile soils
- Improve agriculture by diversifying:
- Human-engineered soils
- Dark soils made from inputs of charcoal, waste and human manure
- Charcoal attracts micro-organisms and fungi, allows soils to retain fertility in the long term
- If successful, they would allow intensive permanent cultivation & drastically reduce deforestation and carbon emissions
- Dark soils made from inputs of charcoal, waste and human manure
- Farming
- Legislation
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