César Ipenza, a Peruvian environmental lawyer and outspoken critic of the recent legislative action, told Mongabay this will “benefit actors who have previously failed to comply with the requirements demanded in the forestry law, weakening the protection of forests and environmental management, ignoring the #RightsOfIndigenousPeoples and encouraging new #deforestation.”
#StopDeforestation #PreserveIndigenousBiodiversity #LandBack
#DeterioratingCarbonSinks #businessasusual
#CattleWreckedLandscape #ViolentRanchers #BigAgro #corruptpoliticians
#TragedyOfEnclosure
#StopDeterioratingCarbonSinks #deforestationfootprint
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https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/critics-decry-controversial-bill-that-loosens-deforestation-restrictions-in-peru/

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/thousands-of-tree-species-at-risk-of-extinction-in-atlantic-forest-study/

#TragedyOfEnclosure #CattleWreckedLandscape: The Atlantic Forest, located along Brazil’s southern coast, has been in dire straits for decades, with expanding cities and #agriculture leaving only a small fraction of the #forest standing today. But the situation might be even worse than previously thought.
Several thousand tree species in the forest are threatened with extinction, a new study has found. Over 80% of endemic tree species are at risk of going extinct — and that’s a conservative estimate, the researchers said.
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#CattleWreckedLandscapes: All throughout America, people wake up each morning and spread cow across their faces.

Yet supplies of collagen derived from American agriculture, noted Manning, haven’t kept up with domestic consumption. He estimated that only about 30-40 percent of bovine collagen produced in the U.S. can be sourced from cattle raised in the country. The rest comes from South American or European animals, including nearly all collagen advertised as “grass-fed” or “pasture-raised.”