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Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down

The Forest Trends report shows a 50 percent increase in deforestation of tropical woodlands, most of it for agriculture and much of it illegal, since the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests.
By Georgina Gustin
May 19, 2021


In the seven years since governments and corporations promised to stop deforestation, the clear cutting of critically important tropical forests has instead increased by more than 50 percent, a new report shows, with commercial agriculture driving most of the increase.

The report, released Tuesday by the conservation group Forest Trends, tracks deforestation, legal and illegal, in 23 countries with large areas of tropical forests, including Brazil, home to most of the Amazon rainforest. The research looks at the period, starting in 2014, when dozens of governments, organizations and companies signed onto the New York Declaration on Forests, a voluntary agreement to halve deforestation by 2020 and stop it altogether by 2030.

The researchers found that, since those commitments, an area nearly twice the size of California has been cleared of trees, mostly for commercial agriculture, which is the largest driver of deforestation and the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions from land use.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052021/deforestation-climate-change-forest-trends-companies-governments/


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When I was a lad, I had the misfortune to decide for people that I never knew how they should live their lives. Alligators. YEP, that's right. I was active in the preservation of alligators. Until I met an actual cajun, who told me outright that I was full of crap. Turned out alligators ain't and never were 'endangered'. Turns out you can't hardly swing a dead cat without an alligator coming up to take it (and your arm).

For that I profusely apologize.

But don't you worry. I have received my penance. Turns out other dumbasses, who don't know a dang thing about the Boreal forest have taken it upon themselves to tell ME how to run my life too. Griz and wolves... Eagle damn flyways... gated roads and the timber industry gone.

Sonsabiches.

Might keep that in mind before telling them folks in the rainforest how to run their lives and what they need to do with their lands.


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Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down

Did gravity get stronger, or something?
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Did gravity get stronger, or something?
Global warming lowered the air density and thus wind resistance to the branches while the tree was on the way down?  :shrug:
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