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Is Passive Rewilding the Best Way to Plant Forests?

While regrowth is still losing out to deforestation in much of the Amazon, Brazil's other great forest, the dry tropical Atlantic Forest of ...

Mobilizing Global Interests for Forest Conservation - Grist

Clearance of tropical forest for agriculture is a major source of CO. 2 emissions, contributing to global warming, and also causes local air pollution. This ...

Amazon Deforestation — How Much of the Rainforest is Left?

Just like animal agriculture, crop production in the Amazon involves the clearing and burning of large areas of land. The crops grown on these ...

Amazon Rainforest Fires: Everything You Need to Know

Deforestation can also trigger changes in rainfall patterns and lead to longer dry seasons, putting agricultural productivity at risk as the ...

Slash-and-burn agriculture can increase forest biodiversity

... forests, according to a new study done in Belize.Researchers found that in areas of the rainforest in which Indigenous farmers using slash ...

Deforestation - YouTube

... forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated deforestation occurs in tropical rainforests. ... cleared land is used as ...

Cattle and Soy For Livestock Are Destroying Rainforests

Every year the world loses approximately five million hectares of forest — 95% of which is located in the tropics. At least three-quarters of ...

Deforestation - world rainforest

Overall, FAO estimates that 10.4 million hectares of tropical forest were permanently destroyed each year in the period from 2000 to 2005, an ...

Death in the Forest: Deforestation Effects on Animals and What You ...

Most of the options out there – designating national parks, reducing agricultural expansion – run into the same problem. And this problem is ...

If you'd cut down a rainforest, would that region be good farm land or ...

Except for subsistence farming in Indian reservations all Brazilian huge agribusiness expansion has been taking place essentially with ...

International News - Farming Portal

Half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn't put to use, research shows, Written by Farming Portal, Hits: 536. Scientists describe 146 new species ...

Forest Pulse: The Latest on the World's Forests

Total tropical primary forest loss in 2023 totaled 3.7 million hectares, the equivalent of losing almost 10 football (soccer) fields of forest ...

How does farming cause deforestation? - Quora

Soils in tropical forest are very poor due to leaching - the constant flow of rain water drains the soil of nutrients. They`re dissolved and ...

15 Biggest Environmental Problems of 2024 | Earth.Org

Despite efforts to protect forest land, legal deforestation is still rampant, and about one-third of global tropical deforestation occurs in Brazil's Amazon ...