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Long-term estimates project that over a 50-year time horizon, most of the planet’s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation.
The farmer and the forest worker could become more involved in the market, the mine engineer could begin to take an interest in crop fields, the banker in plant shares, etc.
During this process, with its seemingly endless and convoluted floor debates, observers should not lose sight of the forest for the trees.
The fungus then reproduces by dropping its spores all over the forest floor, to infect more ants below.
The virus then multiplies, and rains viral particles down on the forest floor.
Some of them have grown back of course, or have been replanted, but it is thought that we now have only half of the amount of forest land we once had on this planet.
So today we sit on a planet with only 50% of its forest cover remaining.
And here’s the part that should bring tears to your eyes: we continue to lose more forest cover every year.
According to the most recent report, between 2000 and 2005, we lost forest acreage equivalent to the land mass of Panama -- more than 77 thousand square kilometers of forest gone, some of it never to return.
I will not be surprised when it is released and I read that the global forest area has continued to shrink.
Similar to the global figures, today the US has only half the forest cover that it had in 1600.
And we continue to destroy forest land.
That forest land will be lost, probably forever, and a few more numbers will be added to the global deforestation total next year.
Why do local politicians, tree lovers all, allow yet more forest destruction?
When a would-be exploiter of trees stands before a politician and requests, or demands, the right to clear a forest, the politician, out of fear, complies.
All take somewhat different approaches and offer different recommendations, making it hard for policymakers to see the forest through the trees.
But trying to address deep-rooted popular grievances with flowery language and a bouquet of subsidies is like trying to extinguish a forest fire with a water pistol.
It was the proverbial match thrown by a careless smoker into a parched forest.
China’s forest coverage rate increased from 12% in the early 1980’s to 18.21% today.
Aside from adaptation, Africa can also play a role in mitigating climate change through more sustainable forest and land management.
Although this represents a small fraction of the effort needed from industrialized countries to fulfill the Kyoto Protocol’s goals by 2012, it would help significantly in improving forest and land use in Africa.
Preserving the European bias against credits from forest projects is not justified, as positive experience emerging from the first land-use projects will show.
The second change would allow forestry and land-use projects that are eligible to issue carbon credits to include such activities as re-vegetation, forest restoration, and improved agricultural management.
By that point, 190,000 cubic meters of forest had been logged.
Before the disaster, this area was home to 22,000 people in 92 villages, and the land was farmed and exploited for its forest resources.
In 2016, the world witnessed a dramatic 51% increase in forest loss, equivalent to an area about the size of New Zealand.
The Indian government, for example, has set aside $6 billion for states to invest in forest restoration.
Moreover, the lives of hundreds of millions of people are tied to these ecosystems, and projects that restore forest cover or improve soil health require focused planning, a massive undertaking for many governments.
Forgetting permits us to transcend details and generalize, to see the forest and not just the trees.
Finally, although it’s possible to put a price tag on precious but non-marketable natural resources – like the capacity of a boreal forest to absorb atmospheric CO2 – the price fluctuations for resources that can be traded make most conservation strategies untenable in the long run.
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