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Living Amazon
With the beginning of a new year, a new cycle of opportunities and challenges also begins. In 2023, there is a particular challenge that needs our special attention: leading the Amazon towards its recovery.
Few regions are as important to our planet as the Amazon. It is a pillar of global climate stability, a bastion of biodiversity, and a cultural repository for humanity. However, this region faces increasingly large and complex threats. Its forests and the animals that inhabit them are disappearing due to illegal, legal but unsustainable, or poorly planned economic activities. Its rivers are contaminated with toxic substances such as mercury and are losing the connectivity that is essential for species such as large migratory fish and river dolphins. As if that were not enough, the Amazon is also facing higher temperatures and drier seasons due to climate change.
Scientists forecast that the degradation of the Amazon could be reaching an irreversible point. The term “tipping point” is being used to describe this situation, which could occur within this decade if deforestation, fire, and climate change trends continue. Losing the Amazon would be a catastrophic event for the countries of the region and for the entire world. But there is still time to stop it.
If you haven't read it yet, WWF's Living Amazon Report, released last November, may be the perfect reading material to start this year with a better understanding of what is happening in the Amazon and the strategies that can be taken to avoid reaching the point of no return. The panorama is complex, but this year also begins with many signs of hope for the future of the Amazon. More and more voices are seeking a paradigm shift in the Amazon countries and many of us from different spheres of society are interested in contributing to reversing the current trend.
With this, I invite you to download the Report and start this year with information and inspiration to strengthen a commitment in favor of the Amazon.
Here's to an excellent 2023, because together it is possible to imagine a different future for the Amazon!
Kurt Holle
Director of WWF Peru and of the WWF Amazon Coordination Unit.
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE
Few regions are as important to our planet as the Amazon. It is a pillar of global climate stability, a bastion of biodiversity, and a cultural repository for humanity. However, this region faces increasingly large and complex threats. Its forests and the animals that inhabit them are disappearing due to illegal, legal but unsustainable, or poorly planned economic activities. Its rivers are contaminated with toxic substances such as mercury and are losing the connectivity that is essential for species such as large migratory fish and river dolphins. As if that were not enough, the Amazon is also facing higher temperatures and drier seasons due to climate change.
Scientists forecast that the degradation of the Amazon could be reaching an irreversible point. The term “tipping point” is being used to describe this situation, which could occur within this decade if deforestation, fire, and climate change trends continue. Losing the Amazon would be a catastrophic event for the countries of the region and for the entire world. But there is still time to stop it.
If you haven't read it yet, WWF's Living Amazon Report, released last November, may be the perfect reading material to start this year with a better understanding of what is happening in the Amazon and the strategies that can be taken to avoid reaching the point of no return. The panorama is complex, but this year also begins with many signs of hope for the future of the Amazon. More and more voices are seeking a paradigm shift in the Amazon countries and many of us from different spheres of society are interested in contributing to reversing the current trend.
With this, I invite you to download the Report and start this year with information and inspiration to strengthen a commitment in favor of the Amazon.
Here's to an excellent 2023, because together it is possible to imagine a different future for the Amazon!
Kurt Holle
Director of WWF Peru and of the WWF Amazon Coordination Unit.
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE