Bolsonaro : How quickly is he destroying the Amazon Rainforest?

Jair Bolsonaro took power in Brazil in October 2018. Since that time he has waged a relentless war on one of the most delicate and essential ecosystems on the planet. The damage is now so severe and irreversible that the majority of the Amazon may well be nothing more than dry savannah land within 3 decades. This video looks at the scale of the challenge and what can be done.




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Research Links

National Academy of Sciences 2017 Paper

https://www.pnas.org/content/114/44/11645

Science Magazine Papers

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/09/earth-home-3-trillion-trees-half-many-when-human-civilization-arose

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76

Global Forest Watch

https://www.globalforestwatch.org

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/press-release/new-un-decade-ecosystem-restoration-offers-unparalleled-opportunity

https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/Interactive/tree-planting-and-ecosystem-restoration-crash-course

The Bonn Challenge

https://www.bonnchallenge.org/

AFR100

https://afr100.org/
BBC Article

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-51300515

Mongabay Articles

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/amazon-deforestation-increases-for-13th-straight-month-in-brazil/

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/brazilian-government-taken-to-court-for-assault-on-environment-climate/



Environmental Groups Featured in Video

EcoWatch

https://www.ecowatch.com/map-of-mining-amazon-2623200925.html

Landscape Academy

https://academy.globallandscapesforum.org/

Common Land

https://www.commonland.com/4-returns/

Just Diggit

https://justdiggit.org/#

Plant for Planet

https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/home

Reforest Action

https://www.reforestaction.com/en

Nature4Climate

https://nature4climate.org/science/n4c-pathways/forests/reforestation/

Tree Sisters

https://treesisters.org/

The Wilderness Society

https://www.wilderness.org/get-involved

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/interactive-tracking-trumps-anti-public-lands-crusade

Project Drawdown

https://drawdown.org/



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