Brazil has launched an Amazon Rainforest Protection Plan, with the aim of completely stopping deforestation by 2030, in 9 states of the Amazon Basin, covering an area of ​​5 million square kilometers.
Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva has pledged to implement a strict security plan to end environmental violations, pledging to move forward with stopping deforestation in general, especially in Amazonia, because this is at the heart of the country’s current policy.
The announcement of the plan came nearly two years after Brazil joined an agreement that included 140 countries, in a bid to halt deforestation around the world.
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The plan is based on a commitment to a timetable that guarantees the protection of forests, under a strict sanction system, and the implementation of the Amazonian protection policy is entrusted to 12 ministries, until the end of the mandate of current President Lula da Silva. , in 2027.
The plan will be implemented through satellite monitoring so authorities can quickly identify and respond to environmental risks, da Silva said, adding that a strict security plan will be implemented in partnership with state governments. of the Amazon to combat illegal land occupation, mining, logging and poaching on people’s lands.
Environmentalists and relevant international institutions await this Brazilian plan, with optimism and enthusiasm, because it could make a leap forward for the Amazon, the largest tropical rainforest in the world, described as respite for the planet.
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Environmental experts warn that the Amazon rainforest, 60 percent of which is located in Brazilian territory, is threatened with extinction in just a few decades, if the systematic and accelerated destruction that is descending on it does not would not be corrected due to the combination of negative natural factors and human factors, such as cutting and depleting its trees and plants and investing in other ways. Harm to the environment, drought and fires due to global warming and the unprecedented rise in temperatures.
A member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Ayman Haitham Qaddouri, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia:
- The Amazon rainforest plays the most important role in maintaining the environmental stability of the planet, due to its vast area estimated at about 7 million square kilometers, in which 8 countries of the South American continent participate in its formation.
- These forests are the lungs of the planet and the largest drainage area for the first greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, in addition to their contribution to the production of approximately 20 percent of the oxygen on the surface of the earth, not to mention the biological diversity they contain, including about 10 percent of living things on Earth, and for more than 20 million people are indigenous to the Amazon.
- Most of it is located in Brazil, making it the biggest responsible for the protection of the Amazon environment, previously launching many campaigns to protect the Amazon forests and prevent the process of logging and displacement indigenous peoples, but none of these successful campaigns.
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On the contrary, the legislation went in one direction and the executive in the opposite direction, and turned a blind eye to the transgressions of the big companies working in the field of investment in the wood of perennial trees, at the time of the former President Bolsonaro, who has always violated international pacts and transgressed agreements relating to the protection of nature.
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- During his reign, the Amazon experienced its most violent decline in terms of the spread of fires and the granting of licenses to private companies to invest in forestry timber and tree cutting, as well as to allow these companies to establish teams to displace the indigenous peoples of the Amazon in order to expropriate their lands from the government.
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The current president, Lula da Silva, was and still is in favor of the protection of the environment and nature, but he has not yet been able to implement any of his ambitions and projects in this regard, and it is from there that the 2030 plan derives its importance. Brazil is obliged to implement and cancel the Convention to Halt Deforestation and Land Degradation by 2030 signed at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, but only a year after the Glasgow summit, the report “Assessment of Collective Progress Towards the World’s Forest-Related Goals” has been published by the Committee of the Conference of the Parties, to assess What has been agreed at the climate summits is that there is no has no global indicator indicating the commitment of the countries that signed the agreement to protect forests, indicating a significant increase in the rate of deforestation, especially in the Brazilian parts of the Amazon rainforest. The protection of the Amazon forests in Brazil is somewhat complicated, due to the power and power of many private companies affiliated with groups, businessmen and centers of power that do not concern themselves so much with environmental issues as with the depletion of natural resources and economic competition, which is sometimes under the protection of local governments.
About the Amazon Rainforest
It covers an area of ​​5.5 million square kilometers. It is known as the “lung of the earth” because it produces over 20% of the world’s oxygen. It contains 10% of known biological species and is the most biologically diverse on Earth. There are approximately 16,000 tree species and 390 billion trees. The natural reserves of the Amazon basin include a quarter of the creatures on Earth, in addition to 300,000 species of plants, 2,500 species of fish, 1,500 birds, 500 species of mammals and 2.5 million species of insects. It is home to between 400 and 500 indigenous tribes, of which around 50 have no contact with the outside population. Cattle farms account for 70% of logging in the Amazon. Since 1970, approximately 800,000 square kilometers of rainforest in the Amazon have been destroyed due to logging. Nearly 30 million people live in the Amazon region. It contains 20 percent of the world’s fresh water.
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