Posts Tagged climate change
In Environmental Services Lies Part of the Solution for Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon rain forest has become an important topic within the climate change discussions, given its importance not only as a carbon sink, but also as a depository of biodiversity, and a natural water and climate regulator. Its conservation is a necessity, no longer subject to argument. Gone are the days of ruthless clash between tree-hugging environmentalists and single minded developmentalists. Both camps have moved: environmentalists for the most part recognize and appreciate the imperative of improving living conditions and governments/developers begin to understand the need for cooperation on environmental topics that have both local and global implications. Fresh in everyone´s mind are the simultaneous drought in the Amazon of 2005 and the Katrina-led hurricane season in the Caribbean.
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Living Planet Report by WWF on Biodiversity
Climate change is a natural process of the earth, any mammoth or dinosaur would be able to tell you that, however the rate at which it is currently happening is unnatural. If you were to think of a process your body goes through when a mosquito bites you; you get an itchy-bite, for a few days have a small red bump and then eventually it goes away. This is a natural process if it was left alone. But we don’t leave things alone; in fact humans have a reputation of development, change, growth and get involved in things when perhaps sometimes things should just be left alone. So we itch, we scratch, we infect. The itchy-bite turns an angry red and develops into something a lot more severe than it should have been.
The year 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, the year that new species continue to be found, but there are more tigers in captivity than there are in the wild. Here in Africa our trademark beast, king of the jungle, the lion is now an endangered species, with experts predicting its extinction in 20 years. These are events happening in our life-time.
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