Amazonia at the point of no return
L’Amazonia it is “a natural system which, like few others, plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the biosphere, allowing life as we know it”. Today it risks collapse. The WWF sounds the alarm: despite the Panel having warned, during the COP26the dangerous approaching of a point of no return, “a year away deforestation is accelerating rather than decreasing”, even in the first half of 2022 it was the highest recorded since 2016. During COP27, the organization that fights for nature conservation therefore published the ‘Living Amazon Report‘ to invite humanity to act urgently, avoiding serious repercussions on food security, livelihoods of 47 million of people, biodiversity.
The climate is also at risk: if the Amazon rainforest will be lost will not be achieved the common goal of containing the warming of the Earth within 1.5 degrees. The carbon stored for centuries in the Amazon would in fact be released at an accelerated rate due to deforestation, fires – intensified by climate change – and unsustainable production activities. It is no coincidence that the alarm is raised in the world jaguar day: the largest feline in the Americas in fact, it risks extinction. Due to the destruction of its natural habitat and for the persecution directed by man.