Deforestation — Gradations Of Loss

30. July 2019 by FK

Category: Climate & Future, Forest & Nature

“Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot recover.”¹

“The world must thrash out a new deal for nature in the next two years or humanity could be the first species to document our own extinction, warns the United Nation’s biodiversity chief.”²

[fig. 1] source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/Deforestation

[fig. 2] “A Landsat-7 image of Rondonia, Brazil, taken on February 7, 2001”
source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003100/a003113/

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/03/stop-biodiversity-loss-or-we-could-face-our-own-extinction-warns-un

[Cover-Photo] Fabian Stöhr, Costa Rica, 2019