Written by Eka Nozadze and Erekle Shubitidze for Georgia Today. Originally posted at https://georgiatoday.ge/forest-fires-and-climate-change-in-georgia-potential-ways-forward/
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the global pandemic, have diverted the world’s attention, and in general put climate change and the green economy onto the back burner of the political agenda.
This blog was written by Barbara Fraser and published by EarthBeat at: https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/politics/indigenous-peoples-lives-depend-their-lands-threats-are-growing-worldwide
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Por Joanna Haugen para Mangabay
Todas as manhãs, mulheres das aldeias Moygu e Arayó, no Médio Xingu, saem de casa munidas de cestos, sacolas e facões. Carregando também água e beiju, reúnem as crianças e começam a caminhar para dentro da floresta para mais um dia de coleta de sementes locais. Debaixo das árvores, seus dedos rastreiam a terra, varrendo as folhas caídas para revelar sementes de murici-da-mata, jatobá, leiteiro, carvoeiro, cafezinho-do-pasto, mamoninha, lobeira e de outras espécies locais.
About 350 land actors from government, academia, civil society and business came together from more than 15 states and outside India to discuss and debate various land issues. In more than 30 sessions, about 150 speakers and panelists deliberated over 3 days around interdisciplinary land-conversations to generate important information and evidence for policy, practice and academics.
Ten important land messages that emerge from these land conversations are:
In the last 15 years, Paraguay lost a greater share of its forest than almost any other country on Earth. While soy farming once drove deforestation in the east, the focus of Paraguay's forest loss has since moved west to the low-lying, thorn-forested Chaco, where cattle ranching has claimed over 3.7 million hectares (9 million acres) of forest for pastureland – an area about the size of the Netherlands – between 2001 and 2015.
Por Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
Em maio deste ano, um grupo de cientistas independentes foi reunido pelo Ministério Público Federal (MPF), em Brasília, para avaliar a situação da vazão do Rio Xingu, especialmente no trecho chamado de Volta Grande. "É um suicídio ecológico", declarou Jansen Zuanon, um eminente especialista de peixes e líder do grupo. "É também um etnocídio, que tudo indica decorrer da corrupção envolvida em Belo Monte", disse a procuradora Thais Santi, de Altamira.
