Amazon rainforest: management strategies

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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
    • 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
    • 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

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