The Christian Science Monitor reports on Brazil’s successful forest conservation efforts and a change in the rate of global tropical deforestation:
Brazil has recently met with success in its efforts to limit deforestation. Will other countries with endangered rainforest ecosystems, such as Indonesia, be able to follow suit?
(Image credit)
“Climate scientists link about 10 percent of annual global carbon increase to the effects of deforestation. But a new study points to a promising shift.
In the 1990s, tropical deforestation claimed 40 million acres each year, according to a report released in June by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Today, about 32 million acres of forests fall each year, a drop of about 19 percent.”
To read more about the changing world and what you can do to prepare, visit: www.greatwavesofchange.org