4 DAYS TO AMAZON DAY
O Amazon Day is celebrated on September 5th and its main objective is to make people aware of the importance of the largest tropical forest in the world, whose biodiversity is connected to life across the planet and has suffered constant attacks. This date was chosen as a way to honor the creation of the Province of Amazonas (currently the State of Amazonas) by D. Pedro II, in 1850.
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🌳 Amazon at stake
O Vero Institute and the socio-environmental monitor Smoke signal promote, this Thursday (01), a Spaces – way to have live audio conversations on Twitter – whose central theme will be “Amazon and Elections 2022: what’s at stake".
The chat – which will place the Amazon at the center of the 2022 Elections discussion – will bring together communicators, socio-environmental leaders and researchers.
📝 Mark your calendars, you can't miss it!
🔥 The Amazon has a record number of fires in August, says INPE
Another tragic record for our Amazon. 😢
were registered 31.513 hot spots in the biome in August, the highest number in 12 years. The data was released on Wednesday night (31) by National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
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The alarming number shows that there is no serious policy to combat deforestation and fires in the Amazon, nor to preserve the rich biodiversity of the forest.
The previous record for the month was recorded in 2010, when around 45 thousand outbreaks were recorded in the biome. After this year, the number of fires in August fell considerably, rising again in 2019.
On August 22 alone, 3.358 outbreaks were recorded in the biome, a greater number than the outbreaks that occurred on what became known as “Fire Day” in 2019.
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🌱 Roads in the Amazon
Roads already cut through or approach 41% of the Amazon forest area in Brazil. This is what concluded a unprecedented mapping carried out by the Amazon Institute of Man and Environment (Imazon), released this week.
Recently published in the international scientific journal Remote sensing (🇬🇧), the research – with the help of artificial intelligence – identified 3,46 million km of roads in the Legal Amazon, equivalent to 10 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
According to the study, 280 thousand km of roads are located in protected areas, 8% of the total in the Amazon: 184 thousand km (5%) in conservation units and 91 thousand km (3%) in indigenous lands.
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Numbers that the authors of the mapping claim represent a high pressure on roads and, consequently, deforestation in these territories.
“Therefore, mapping and monitoring roads is crucial to identify threats to the forest and the traditional people and communities that live in it, such as indigenous people, quilombolas and riverside dwellers. In previous studies, we had already indicated that 95% of deforestation in the Amazon was concentrated within 5,5 km of roads. And that 85% of the fires occurred within 5 km of them”, explains the research coordinator, Carlos Souza Jr. (imazon)
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