The Amazon Rainforest: Management Flashcards
How much rainforest is brazil committed to restoring by 2030?
120,000km^2
How did indigenous people live sustainably?
They were shifting cultivators, maintaining the water balance and biodiversity, there impacts were generally localised, pursuing a way of life perfect for the fragility of the rainforest
By 2015, how much of the Brazilian rainforest was national parks, wildlife reserves and indigenous reserves where farming was banned?
44%
what is the size of the amazon regional protected areas equivalent to roughly?
20x the size of Belgium roughly
Outline the Parica Project in Rondonia
1) Aim to develop a 1000km^2 plantation on government owned deforested land
2) Planting 20 million fast-growing hardwood seedling provided by tree nurseries to mature over 25 years
3) Financial assistance given to smallholders for planting, preparation and management
4) Aim to export Timber along the Amazons tributaries from Manaus to Porto Velho
What is the limitations of the Parica Project?
Mainly Monoculture, so replication of primary rainforest can not be fully possible
What is the benefits of the Parica Project?
Although monoculture, it can sequester CO2 from the atmosphere, (from deforestation) re-establish water and carbon cycle, as well as reducing the run off and loss of plant nutrients
Outline what is done in the scheme the Surui take part in?
They aim to protect their tribal lands from deforestation and illegal loggings, as well as restore the rainforest degraded by deforestation in the last 40 years. These seedlings are grown in nearby nurseries and can provide them with timber for construction and through logging, a sustainable source of income
What scheme did the Surui join? and what was the result
They joined the UNs REDD scheme, which meant they had to protect the rainforest and abandon logging in exchange for payments. It’s a market-based approach and can provide carbon credits. These can be purchased by international companies who have exceeded their annual emissions quotas. In 2013, Natura, a large cosmetics TNC purchased 120,000 carbon credits from the tribe
Explain how the agricultural technique of diversification works
1) Combining livestock, arable operations and rotational cropping to maintain soil fertility
2) This could allow a 5 fold increase in ranching productivity and help slow deforestation
How does brazil aim to reach their Paris Agreement goal?
Aim to restore 30,000ha of land, the largest in the world, to move towards meeting it’s goal of reaching 12 million ha if restoration by 2030. REFORESTATION
