- Large intact forests and connected landscapes support biodiversity and ecosystem processes.
- Globally, more than half of the world’s forests became more fragmented between 2000 and 2020, according to a new Science study, with the highest rates in the tropics.
- The study used new measures of fragmentation that more closely align with ecological functions and is higher than previous estimates of fragmentation rates.
- The study also finds that in the tropical forests, protected areas experienced much lower rates of fragmentation than similar unprotected forests.
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Is anyone here taking action to contribute to the protection of forests? If so, what are you doing? If not, what’s stopping you?
I’m a member of a local conservancy group. It ain’t much, but it’s honest.
Currently, I’m not participating in something like that but I have dedicated plenty of time and efforts in one relevant projects. It’s on purpose that I won’t go into any detail.
Well, we were pretty much doing the typical stuff. Pay attention to what the locals say and want, stay in the mountain, publications (online or otherwise), informative videos & podcasts, organising events in cities near by, like talks, projections, music. That’s it more or less, I think.
How did this projects go? The main goal was not achieved. But everything has been delayed for so-so many years. They still haven’t started. I believe that this is something important. Project is still going on but with less people due to some internal problems, lets put it this way. Even tho I cannot participate in it anymore I am glad they keep doing it bc these things take such a long time.
I am not taking any action sorry. I am poor, and crushed by capitalism and a Christo-fascist government that hates the majority of it people. I’m now a Misanthropic Anti-Natalist. When all the human nightmare creatures are extinct, the forests on this planet will be just fine.
fragmentation also destroyed undiscovered plant species from being discovered, much like with mycoheterotrophs, which are very sensitive to such changes, because they are usually rare and emphemeral.
