How to halt and protect forests and trees?
Halt Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss
It’s essential that governments worldwide should comply with their commitment to halt deforestation and forest biodiversity loss, at the latest by 2020. The privatisation, commercialisation and deterioration of public policy, through public-private partnerships and other schemes, should be halted, and governments should guarantee the protection of human rights, particularly for vulnerable groups.
Don’t Trade on Forests
Forests are not a commodity to be traded, forests are for life. The impacts of the consumption of wood and other forest products must be reduced to a minimum, with sustainable local use governed by local conservation practices prioritized instead.
Forests are Key to the Climate Crisis
Forest protection and restoration should be placed at the heart of climate regulation, to mitigate against the impacts of climate change and to protect biodiversity and halt desertification.
Biodiversity through Cultural Diversity
The cultural diversity and traditional knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women is vital to biodiversity conservation and the protection of forest ecosystems and should therefore be protected, with an emphasis on inter-generational dialogue and the crucial role of young people.
Tourism Contributes to deforestation
In China, I witnessed that the tourism can contribute to deforestation in lots of locations. Wilderness areas may be cleared for new tourism development, wildfires ignited by careless backpackers, or timber harvested for construction materials. Click below to learn more about the different issues that we are addressing to protect our remarkable forest ecosystems.
Why is the Amazon Rainforest Dying？
Reference:
https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html
https://globalforestcoalition.org/about-us/vision-mission/
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13092019
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Hi,
Very interesting post! You provided a lot of information. I didn’t know for example that 1/3 of the drinking water comes from the forest for the world largest cities. It really seems that forests are at the core of stopping climate change. But how sad it is that after the countries pledge themselves to minimise and stop deforestation, the numbers are rising high with a very quick speed.
I liked that you pointed out that forest are not for trade. They should be considered as pre-condition for life. They are nobody’s, because they are everybody’s. They belong to the planet.
Thank you for your post!
Hi Ju Gu,
Your article is comprehensive and to the point. The rapid rate of deforestation and its effects on animals and ecosystems is a tragedy stemming directly from human greed, so you did well to point out that corporate lobbying of govt. in prioritising profit over forests, needs to stop.
Because we are at a critical choice-point for the future of the planet, your article is the kind of fact-driven notice we all need to reconfigure our values and start putting the earth first. I was glad you mentioned indigenous ways of managing land as being potentially more sustainable. I come from Australia, where we are continuing to learn about how to sustain agriculture with the help of indigenous knowledge.
We should not ignore the global effects of our personal choices, such as tourism. This seems to be a recurring theme of the course. It made me think about my own choices, and increased my empathy for non-human life. So thank you.
Nicholas