Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

[UngulateNerd92]

• Between January and early September, 3,542 deforestation alerts have been confirmed in primary forest within Campos Amazônicos National Park, according to satellite data, representing a 37% jump over the average amount of forest loss for the previous five years.
• Much of the occupation of the Campos Amazônicos park is happening through illegitimate land claims, fueled by hopes that protections on the park may be loosened in the future, environmentalists say. Even though the park is under federal protection, this hasn’t stopped invaders from falsely registering slices of it as their property.
• Environmentalists warn the social and environmental impacts could be devastating. Campos Amazônicos wraps around the Tenharim do Igarapé Preto Indigenous Reserve, which was until recently under attack by illegal miners who descended on the territory in search of cassiterite; sources say the fresh incursions into Campos Amazônicos could put the area back at risk.
• The park also holds one of the most striking enclaves of cerrado in the Amazon rainforest, housing stretches of shrubs, grasslands and dry forest typical of the savanna biome. Campos Amazônicos is also part of the Southern Amazon Conservation Corridor that represents one of the best-preserved stretches of the rainforest.

Deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the emerald canopy of the Campos Amazonicôs National Park sprawls across nearly a million hectares of land. Within it, dense forest hugs stretches of savanna shrubs – a rare sight that has turned the park into a biologist’s treasure. Yet, along its edges, trees are being razed at a breakneck pace as invaders rush to claim swaths of it.

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[Dassie rat]

I bet the Brazilian Government will not accept responsibility for impending droughts and starvation in Brazil.

 

[Matheus Carbonero]

As a brazilian I'm glad that you are aware of our current situation!

I'm from São Carlos in the state of SP and these last few weeks have been hell, the weather is really dry and there were wild fires around the city pretty much every day. The São Carlos Ecological Park, which is my childhood zoo, sits in an area of Cerrado preservation, next to the Federal University of São Carlos, keep in mind that the Cerrado biome originally covered 33% of the state, nowadays it's more like 13%, with most of it in very small and far-apart areas. Unfortunately a large portion of this area was burned down, alongside other areas nearby, which made me sad to the point of not looking out the window for days to avoid seeing the smoke that covered the entire city. I'm sorry for venting, I'm not really sure what my point was, but yeah, just adding more information here.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

As a brazilian I'm glad that you are aware of our current situation!

I'm from São Carlos in the state of SP and these last few weeks have been hell, the weather is really dry and there were wild fires around the city pretty much every day. The São Carlos Ecological Park, which is my childhood zoo, sits in an area of Cerrado preservation, next to the Federal University of São Carlos, keep in mind that the Cerrado biome originally covered 33% of the state, nowadays it's more like 13%, with most of it in very small and far-apart areas. Unfortunately a large portion of this area was burned down, alongside other areas nearby, which made me sad to the point of not looking out the window for days to avoid seeing the smoke that covered the entire city. I'm sorry for venting, I'm not really sure what my point was, but yeah, just adding more information here.

I appreciate your sharing this with us. I am sad to read this and I am sorry that Brazil is in this situation. Nobody should have to live like this. Brazil as well as every other country deserves better. It doesn't have to be this way. We all need to vent and blow off steam every once and a while, and this is certainly a legitimate issue to vent about!