Forests
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By sharing, we can actually bring back our native
forests.
If we could establish
forests
in those other areas, we can reverse climate change, including global warming.
Over the next two decades, we'll see the demand for energy rise by 40 percent, and the growth in the economy and in the population is putting increasing pressure on our land, on our water and on our
forests.
If we manage it in a negligent or a shortsighted way, we will create waste, pollution, congestion, destruction of land and
forests.
Look at land, land and particularly
forests.
Forests
are the hosts to valuable plant and animal species.
But we're losing our
forests.
I've been doing this for a long time, and I want to tell you, these people know these
forests
and these medicinal treasures better than we do and better than we ever will.
But also, these cultures, these indigenous cultures, are disappearing much faster than the
forests
themselves.
However, if you go into most of the
forests
of the Amazon, there are no indigenous peoples.
Let's live in a world where the shamans live in these
forests
and heal themselves and us with their mystical plants and their sacred frogs.
We have in the world about four billion hectares of
forests.
That was when we shifted from deforestation of temperate
forests
to deforestation of tropical
forests.
So think of this: In 100 years, we lost the same amount of forest in the tropics that we lost in 2,000 years in temperate
forests.
It means 12 percent of all the world's
forests
are in Brazil, most of that in the Amazon.
Now I've always been interested in the relationship between climate change and
forests.
But also,
forests
can be a big part of the solution since that's the best way we know to sink, capture and store carbon.
Now, there is another relationship of climate and
forests
that really stuck me in 2008 and made me change my career from
forests
to working with climate change.
And when we were there we learned about this pine beetle that is literally eating the
forests
in Canada.
We don't need to clear-cut all the
forests
to actually get more jobs and agriculture and have more economy.
That was not exceptional, we were told, and that particularly is on the periphery of the
forests
that are most under threat.
They nest and they mate and they breed in these old-growth swamps in these flooded
forests.
Tropical
forests
and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
Tapirs are mostly found in tropical
forests
such as the Amazon, and they absolutely need large patches of habitat in order to find all the resources they need to reproduce and survive.
And right now, 2015, we are expanding our work once again to the Brazilian Cerrado, the open grasslands and shrub
forests
in the central part of Brazil.
Well, this is what happens to a lot of coastal mangrove
forests.
And we can't keep cutting down rain
forests
for it.
You don't need large tracts of land for it and you don't need to cut down rain
forests
for it.
Management of forests, transportation, the oceans, the melting of the permafrost.
But you can find tardigrades in the most ordinary places, too, like moss or lichen found in yards, parks, and
forests.
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