lunes, 23 de diciembre de 2019

Mafias trafican madera en parques naturales

 Flagelo de la selva: así funcionan las mafias que depredan los árboles de mara en el Amboró y el Madidi

22 diciembre, 2019 Bolivia
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Un exmaderero cuenta cómo operan estos grupos, que están dispuestos a matar si alguien se atraviesa en su camino. Usan drones para alertar a los demás de la presencia de guardaparques. Algunos incursionaron en la siembra de coca en áreas protegidas.

Por Eduardo Franco Berton

 (Esta es una colaboración periodística entre la Red Ambiental de Información yLa Región)

http://www.raibolivia.org/el-flagelo-de-la-selva-asi-funcionan-las-mafias-que-depredan-los-arboles-de-mara-en-el-amboro-y-el-madidi/

La destrucción de Evo no acaba


A pesar de discursos gubernamentales sobre conservación de parques naturales, surgen denuncias que militares abren camino en Parque Ñembi Guasu
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https://twitter.com/BrujulaNoticias/status/1181322485234622468?s=09

lunes, 30 de septiembre de 2019

Elie Wiesel, discurso del Premio Nobel

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

On Elie Wiesel's birthday, his timely Nobel Prize acceptance speech:  https://t.co/CVATWcHl8y

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1178856966157938688?s=09

sábado, 21 de septiembre de 2019

Ecocidio en Bolivia - 43 días de incendios provocados por la agroindustria y el narcotráfico

(Nota tomada del diario El Deber, de Santa Cruz de la Sierra.)

¿Qué es un incendio de sexta generación y por qué preocupa a los expertos?

No solo son más caóticos e imprevisibles.  En este tipo de incendios, el fuego modifica las condiciones meteorológicas y pueden crear remolinos y tormentas de fuego

Por EL DEBER

Una comisión de expertos internacionales llegó a Santa Cruz para examinar las características del incendio forestal en la Chiquitania y llegó a la conclusión de que se trata de un incendio de sexta generación.

Expertos señalan que los incendios son un elemento natural de la tierra y que a través del tiempo han ido evolucionando, como el virus de una enfermedad ,y el último, el de sexta generación, tiene consecuencias devastadoras por la cantidad de hectáreas de vegetación que se quema.

Dentro de las características del incendio forestal de sexta generación resaltan que el fuego supera una velocidad de 4.000 hectáreas por hora.

La masa de combustible (todo aquello que se quema) es tan grande que el fuego modifica las condiciones meteorológicas, estos crean remolinos y tormentas de fuego.

Para su generación influyen factores como el cambio climático, la despoblación del medio rural, el abandono de los montes y la mano del hombre.

Estos incendios crean nubes de tormenta que acaba cambiando la meteorología de la zona. Son más caóticos e imprevisibles.  

El incendio coge el control de la meteorologíadel área afectada y no al revés.

Los incendios de sexta generación pueden llegar a quemar 400.000 hectáreas en dos días. Además, queman con una intensidad de 100.000 kilovatio por metro (kw/m). Más allá de los 10.000 kw/m el bombero sufre quemaduras de piel.



domingo, 28 de abril de 2019

Buenas noticias: WAORANIS GANAN FALLO CONTRA PETROLERAS EN AMAZONÍA

Foto: AFP

viernes, 26 de abril de 2019 
Este 26 de abril de 2019, los indígenaswaorani ganaron su lucha judicial contra el desembarque de las petroleras en la selva amazónica de Ecuador.
Un tribunal de Puyo, capital de Pastaza, emitió este viernes un fallo de primera instancia a favor de los indígenas, reconociendo que se vulneró el derecho a la consulta previa libre e informada y a la autodeterminación de los pueblos, ante la explotación petrolera en la zona.
Su asentamiento está a 40 minutos en avioneta de Shell, el poblado que adoptó el nombre de la multinacional europea que operó en la provincia de Pastaza y es símbolo de la penetración de la actividad petrolera en la Amazonía.


Cazadores por tradición, los waorani (o huaorani) se ven a sí mismos como guardianes del bosque. Como pueblo guerrero han hecho valer sus armas ancestrales en la defensa de sus códigos de honor, pero sobre todo del territorio apenas explorado que habitan en la Amazonía.
Con el apoyo de otros wao, los indígenas de Nemompare y alrededores acudieron a la justicia para impedir el ingreso de las petroleras. 


Con unos 4.800 miembros, los waorani son dueños de unas 800.000 hectáreas de selva en Pastaza, Napo y Orellana, una pequeña parte de la cuenca amazónica ecuatoriana. La ley reconoce la jurisdicción indígena, pero mantiene la potestad del Estado sobre el subsuelo.  
Por su parte, el Gobierno asegura tener luz verde para llamar a las petroleras gracias a una consulta realizada en 2012. Sin embargo, los indígenas indicaron que funcionarios llegaron entonces en avioneta y obtuvieron el aval con engaños, comida y refrescos.

La impostura ecologista de Evo Morales y su narco Estado apoyado desde la ONU y los Estados Unidos


The World Lost a Belgium-sized Area of Primary Rainforests Last Year

The tropics lost 12 million hectares of tree cover in 2018, the fourth-highest annual loss since record-keeping began in 2001. Of greatest concern is the disappearance of 3.6 million hectares of primary rainforest, an area the size of Belgium. The figures come from updated data from the University of Maryland, released today on Global Forest Watch.
Old growth, or “primary” tropical rainforests, are a crucially important forest ecosystem, containing trees that can be hundreds or even thousands of years old. They store more carbon than other forests and are irreplaceable when it comes to sustaining biodiversity. Primary rainforests provide habitat for animals ranging from orangutans and mountain gorillas to jaguars and tigers. Once these forests are cut down, they may never return to their original state.
For the first time, new data on the location of primary forests can help distinguish loss of these important forests from other tree cover loss (read more about the data here). The data reveals that despite a growing number of zero-deforestation commitments from governments and companies, primary rainforest loss hit record highs in 2016 and 2017 due to fires and remained above historical levels in 2018.
The loss of primary rainforests looks different across regions—including what’s driving it, where it’s happening and its impact. Here’s a deeper look at the trends:

Which Countries Are Losing the Most Primary Rainforest?

In 2002, just two countries—Brazil and Indonesia—made up 71 percent of tropical primary forest loss. More recent data shows that the frontiers of primary forest loss are starting to shift. Brazil and Indonesia only accounted for 46 percent of primary rainforest loss in 2018, while countries like Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Democratic Republic of the Congo saw loss rates rise considerably.

Indonesia Massively Reduced Primary Forest Loss

Primary forest loss in Indonesia dropped to its lowest rate since 2003 last year, continuing a hopeful decline that started in 2017. Primary forest loss was 40 percent lower in 2018 than the average annual rate of loss from 2002-2016.
The country saw an even more dramatic decline in forest loss in protected forests, suggesting that recent government policies are working. On peatlands deeper than 3 meters, which have been legally protected from development since 2016, forest loss dropped 80 percent from the 2002-2016 average. And in areas under Indonesia’s forest moratorium, primary forest loss dropped 45 percent in 2018 compared to 2002-2016.
The country is already seeing financial benefits from this decline. In February, Norway announced it will compensate Indonesia for reducing its deforestation-related emissions as part of a climate and forest partnership the two countries signed in 2010.
Though the decline in primary forest loss over the past two years is promising, the fight against deforestation is far from over. The last two years were relatively wet in the country, preventing a strong fire season like the one that burned 2.6 million hectares in 2015. This year will be another El Niño year (albeit weaker than 2015-2016), which generally leads to dry conditions and a prolonged fire season in Indonesia. The province of Riau has already seen more than 1,000 hectares burned in 2019 due to a heatwave, and the government is bracing for more.

Forest Loss in Brazil Remained Elevated After Fire-Related Spike

Brazil’s primary forest loss in 2018 was lower than its 2016-2017 fire-related spike, but still more than it was from 2007-2015, when the country had reduced its deforestation rate by 70 percent. PRODES, Brazil’s official monitoring system for the Amazon, has similarly showed an upward trend in deforestation since 2012 (read more about the difference in these two data sets here).
Though some of the 2018 loss can be attributed to fire, most of it appears to be due to clear cutting in the Amazon, putting at risk the declines in deforestation the country achieved in the early 2000s.
Notably, several hot spots of primary forest loss occurred near and within indigenous territories. For example, the Ituna Itata reserve saw more than 4,000 hectares of illegal clearing within its borders in the first half of 2018, more than double the total loss from 2002-2017. The reserve is home to some of the world’s last remaining uncontacted peoples, who depend on the forest for survival and have conserved it for centuries.
It’s still too early to assess how the weakening of environmental laws and enforcement under Brazil’s new administration will impact forest loss. The high rate of primary forest loss in 2018 occurred before President Bolsonaro took office (though there is evidence of deforestation rates spiking during the election season). We’ll have to wait until next year’s data for more insights.

South American Forests Faced Increased Threats

Though Brazil experienced a decline in deforestation in the early 2000s, this has not been true in other parts of South America. Colombia, Bolivia and Peru all experienced rising rates of primary forest loss since the turn of the century, though with quite different drivers.
In Colombia, primary forest loss increased 9 percent between 2017 and 2018, continuing a dramatic upward trend since 2016. Ironically, this loss was related to the peace process, as areas in the Amazon previously occupied by the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) have opened up to development. Tinigua National Park has been an unfortunate casualty of the rampant forest clearing, losing around 12,000 hectares of forest in 2018, 6 percent of its total forest area.
In Bolivia, most forest loss was related to conversion of forests to large-scale agriculture and pasture, particularly in the Chaco. Forest loss in Peru, on the other hand, was generally for small-scale agriculture, including some illegal coca production. Peru also saw a proliferation of new loggingroads in remote areas of the Amazon in 2018, as well as continued clearing for illegal gold mining in the south of the country.

Primary Forest Loss Increased in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar

New frontiers of loss are emerging in parts of Africa.
Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire experienced the highest percent rise in primary forest loss between 2017 and 2018 of any tropical country (60 percent and 26 percent, respectively). Illegal mining caused some of the loss, and while it is difficult to attribute the exact location and amount of forest loss, expansion of cocoa farms caused loss in both countries. Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and leading cocoa and chocolate companies pledged in 2017 to end deforestation within cocoa supply chains. While this is a promising first step, the recent rise in primary forest loss—especially in protected areas, where 70 percent of the loss occurred—is a worrying sign. The cocoa sector needs effective monitoring systems such as Global Forest Watch Pro, set to launch later this year, to help reduce forest loss in future years.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, primary forest loss was 38 percent higher in 2018 than it was from 2011-2017. Expansion of small-scale forest clearing for agriculture and fuelwood likely caused about three-quarters of this loss. Some loss patterns suggest that new, medium-sized agriculture and conflict-induced population displacement have also contributed.
Finally, Madagascar lost 2 percent of its primary rainforest in 2018, a higher proportion than any tropical country. While most of this loss was caused by slash-and burn-agriculture, some was due to illegal mining for sapphires near the northern part of the Corridor Zahamena Ankeniheny protected area, as well as legal nickel mining in the southern part of the Corridor.

Saving the World’s Primary Rainforests

Hundreds of countries and companies have made commitments to reduce or eliminate deforestation by 2020. As we draw closer to this deadline, some countries are making real progress at reducing loss of primary forests, but many others are trending in the wrong direction. Early reports and the high rate of primary forest loss in 2018 suggest that we are not on track to meet these goals. Given the urgency to prevent runaway climate change and irreversible biodiversity loss, we need to rein in deforestation – before it’s too late.
The authors would like to acknowledge Peter Potapov and Svetlana Turubanova from the University of Maryland, who updated the tree cover loss data set.

El Tipnis y el Madidi, las heridas que sangran en el rostro indígena de Bolivia https://www.eldeber.com.bo/separata/El-Tipnis-y-el-Madidi-las-heridas-que-sangran-en-el-rostro-indigena-de-Bolivia-20190422-9215.html


Bolivia está entre los cinco países con mayor deforestación en el mundo


El Instituto de Recursos Mundiales (WRI) informó que 12 millones de hectáreas de selvas tropicales han sido destruidas en el mundo. Bolivia es uno de los países más afectados

El informe da cuenta de una tendencia a incrementarse la deforestación en América Latina. (Foto: Noticias Tarija)
En 2018 el mundo perdió 12 millones de hectáreas de selvas tropicales, el equivalente a la superficie de Nicaragua, indicó este martes el Instituto de Recursos Mundiales (WRI), entre ellos 3,64 millones de selvas vírgenes, fundamentales para el clima y la biodiversidad.
Los países más afectados son Bolivia, Brasil, Indonesia, República Democrática del Congo y Colombia
Según este informe anual, realizado por Global Forest Watch, en Bolivia, la mayor parte de la pérdida de bosques se relacionó con la conversión de bosques a la agricultura y el pastoreo a gran escala, particularmente en el Chaco. El país ocupa el quinto puesto en la lista.



martes, 25 de septiembre de 2018

Reportaje fotografico

Sebastião Salgado retrata a la tribu que teme al hombre blanco  https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/10/eps/1533894534_470404.html?id_externo_rsoc=whatsapp