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Las rutas del tren bioceánico: expertos advierten posibles impactos de la megaobra que cruzará la Amazonía
Las rutas del tren bioceánico: expertos advierten posibles impactos de la megaobra que cruzará la Amazonía - SLRPNK
> - El anuncio de la construcción de un tren bioceánico entre Perú y Brasil ha despertado preocupación por los posibles impactos sociales y ambientales. > - Los expertos alertan sobre las consecuencias en la zona que cruzará la Amazonía peruana y brasileña, por las afectaciones a los pueblos indígenas y a la biodiversidad. > - Hasta ahora no hay una ruta definitiva, sin embargo, los posibles trazos cruzarían por Ucayali o Madre de Dios, en Perú. > - El Gobierno Regional de Ucayali ha manifestado su interés en que el tren pase por ese departamento porque impulsa la agenda de integración amazónica y la mejora de la conectividad con Brasil.
Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn
Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn - SLRPNK
> - Discussions around the construction of a railway line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts in South America have raised concerns about the potential social and environmental impacts. > - Experts warn about the consequences within and around the proposed routes of the Bioceanic Railway between Peru and Brazil, potentially harming Indigenous communities as well as the native Amazonian ecosystem. > - While authorities told Mongabay that there’s no “definitive route” to date, all the potential routes would cross through environmentally sensitive areas of the Peruvian regions of Ucayali and Madre de Dios. > - Critics also warn that opening new routes inside the Amazon could boost criminal activity, paving the way for illegal mining and drug trafficking.
The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests
Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network
Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network - SLRPNK
> - The Global Landscapes Forum recently announced the addition of 12 new “chapter” members to its GLFx network. > - The GLFx network connects independent, community-oriented groups worldwide to strengthen their work protecting and restoring healthy forests and other landscapes. > - Five of the new members are in Africa, including the School Food Forest Initiative in Uganda, which works with children to plant trees and grow food on school grounds.
Study finds deforestation accounts for major Amazon rainfall decline
Study finds deforestation accounts for major Amazon rainfall decline - SLRPNK
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35907897 [https://slrpnk.net/post/35907897] > > - A study [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68361-z] looking at land and atmosphere interactions in the Amazon Basin across four decades found that 52-72% of the rainfall decline in the southern Amazon is due to large-scale deforestation. > > - Between 1980 and 2019, annual precipitation in the southern Amazon declined by 8-11%, with most of the region losing on average 7.7% of its forest cover over largely the same period. > > - The research also indicates that climate models might underestimate the contribution of deforestation to precipitation reduction by as much as 50%, which could mean that rainfall thresholds in the Amazon could be crossed earlier than expected. > > — > > biotic pump theory [https://www.thebioticpump.com/] > > drivers of Amazon deforestation [https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/amazon-destruction/] > > do something about it [https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/food-forests/]
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USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests
USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests - SLRPNK
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/25440472 [https://beehaw.org/post/25440472] > > When the Trump administration announced plans last year to rescind a rule limiting roadbuilding and timber harvests on millions of acres of national forests and grasslands, officials called the repeal necessary to prevent and manage wildfires. > > > > But as the U.S. Department of Agriculture prepares to release its draft environmental impact statement for the rescission, that justification is unraveling. And many critics of the move see the claim that roads are needed to fight fires in remote forests as cover for a giveaway to the timber industry. > > > > On average, about 8 million acres have burned each year between 2017 and 2021, according to the Congressional Budget Office, nearly double the average from 1987 to 1991. Wildfires on federal lands average about five times the size of those in the rest of the country, leading some of the nation’s top land managers to argue that national forests are a front line for fighting the nation’s steep increase in wildland blazes. > > > > Yet a chorus of fire scientists, frontline firefighters, legal experts and the agency’s own historical record have contradicted that reasoning, saying that roads don’t reduce wildfire risk; they multiply it. > > > > If he had to name the five biggest obstacles to effective wildfire response, lack of roads “probably either wouldn’t be on the list, or it’d be at the bottom,” said Lucas Mayfield, a former Hotshot firefighter and co-founder of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, a nonprofit that advocates for policy on behalf of firefighters.
Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires
Study says roads bring more fires to forests; USDA wants more roads to fight fires - SLRPNK
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/43117645 [https://sopuli.xyz/post/43117645] > > Beyond human ignitions, roads also alter the ecological conditions that drive fire risk. Aplet’s research found elevated ignitions from lightning near roads, not because there were more strikes, but because roads change ground-level fuel conditions by putting gaps in the forest canopy that allow sunlight and wind to heat and dry vegetation on the forest floor. > > > Roads also serve as corridors for invasive species, many of which evolved to use fire to help them spread. In the Great Basin, an area that stretches from Salt Lake City to nearly Sacramento, southern Oregon to Las Vegas, cheatgrass carried by vehicles, boots, and livestock to roadsides has displaced native vegetation by creating continuous fields of fine stalks that dry out when other grasses are just sprouting. The dry cheatgrass ignites easily and burns quickly across landscapes where native grasses that stay moist later in the season and grow in dispersed bunches previously inhibited the spread of the flames.
Commodities driving agriculture-linked forest destruction (2001-2022)
