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New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight (news.mongabay.com)
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  • A new report has found that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon store more aboveground carbon than the rest of the rainforest.
  • Protected areas and Indigenous territories were also found to serve as significant carbon sinks between 2013 and 2022, absorbing 257 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
  • Protected areas in Colombia, Brazil, Suriname and French Guiana were found to be significant carbon sinks.
  • The report underscores the need to protect these areas that aren’t currently threatened by deforestation as they play a critical role in offsetting emissions from other parts of the forest.

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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

“The data shows that land stewardship and protection fundamentally shift the carbon storage and emissions dynamics in the Amazon,” Chris Anderson, senior scientist at Planet, told Mongabay in an email interview. Anderson said the data hint at two scenarios that lie ahead for the planet: “one under land stewardship that promotes climate resilience versus one that doesn’t.”

The Amazon needs more people protecting the remaining forest and reforesting areas that have been degraded. Most environmental organisations just ask for money, but without people actually stewarding the land, it's highly questionable what effect any donations will have in the long term. There are people working on buying up land near a national park in order to expand the area under protection, but they need more people to help, even if only in the form of buying forested land and doing nothing with it or buying pasture land and letting it reforest itself.