World’s top #banks #greenwashing their role in destruction of the #Amazon | #AmazonRainforest | The Guardian
#Environment #Biodiversity #Deforestation #Ecology #Wildlife #Rainforests
#rainforests
Demand from the multi-billion yacht industry is fuelling timber logging in Myanmar — dubbed as "blood teak," it funds the military junta that has killed thousands since the 2021 coup.
#Myanmar's forests are under threat from the lucrative trade of valuable wood. An investigation has revealed how despite sanctions, teak is flooding #Europe.
Disgusting world we live in!
#Rainforests #Environment #Capitalism #Economy #Dictatorship #SickSickWorld
https://www.dw.com/en/blood-teak-for-the-super-rich-props-up-a-cruel-regime/a-64854613
COP15 is a once in a lifetime opportunity to turn the tide on biodiversity loss
#cop15 #montreal #biodiversity #loss #decline #life #nature #planet #soil #ecosystems #sustainable #resources #conservation #forests #rainforests
A sad record: in the Brazilian Amazon, the number of fires has reached its highest level in 15 years. 3,358 fires on August 22, the highest number in one day since 2007.
It's expected to be the worst August since the beginning of #Bolsonaro's presidency
#Amazon #Brazil #Environment #Rainforests
https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/d05c700a-035c-47f9-a551-13c9af3e253f
Understory
Tongass Documentary
“Understory” is a short film that takes us deep into Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest remaining temperate rainforest on the planet. Our guide, Elsa Sebastian, is a young local fisherman who grew up “off-grid” in a remote village surrounded by the vast, ancient forest. When Elsa learns that the U.S. federal government is axing environmental protections for nine million acres of the Tongass, she is driven to action–first fixing up an old sailboat, and then setting sail on a 350-mile expedition along the rainforest’s coast.
Elsa is joined by Dr. Natalie Dawson, a biologist who has spent decades studying Alaska’s wildlife, and artist Mara Menahan. For a month the team documents old-growth trees threatened by logging, witnesses the dark aftermath of clearcuts, visits streams teeming with salmon, and learns about indigenous cultural connections to the Tongass. As Elsa, Natalie, and Mara personally and directly face the devastating impacts of the timber industry on the old growth forest, they struggle to hold onto hope. With the end of their journey comes the realization that saving our last ancient rainforests is more urgent than they could have imagined.
Director Colin Arisman deftly unpacks and presents the story of greed and mis-guided government management that has defined decades of logging in the Tongass. Through breathtaking cinematography and poignant personal experience, Understory makes the case that saving ancient forests like the Tongass is critical to both the resilience of humans and the future of our planet’s climate.
New film documents threats to Tongass National Forest, need for protection
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/new-film-documents-threats-tongass-national-forest-need-protection
#Understory #documentary #film #nature #environment #logging #trees #old-growth #forests #rainforests #protection #preservation #conservation #indigenous #cultural #connections #MarinaAnderson #MaraMenahan #NatalieDawson #ElsaSebastian #Tongass #Alaska #TongassNationalForest #LastStands #tongasslaststands #ColinArisman #TheWildernessSociety #WildConfluence #docu-films
Our Planet ~ Forests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkaxUblCGz0
The #air that we breathe, the #water we drink, the #energy we consume all #originate from the processes controlled by #trees and other #plants. We have cut much of our #forests down, but they have a #magical #resilience. They can #regenerate, #rebuild and #re-wild - if only we can give them the chance.
#ourplanet #documentary #sirdavidattenborough #attenborough #planet #earth #nature #beauty #natural #world #climate #wildlife #wolves #bald-eagles #hunting-dogs #siberian #tigers #boreal #evergreens #deciduous #fire #redwoods #animals #birds #ghats #miombo #baobabs #madagascar #rainforests
Our Planet ~ One Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfO-3Oir-qM
#ourplanet #oneplanet #documentary #sirdavidattenborough #attenborough #earth #nature #planet #natural #world #wildlife #birds #fish #wildebeest #wild #dogs #caribou #rainforests #boreal #forests #beauty #arctic #antarctica #greenland #ice #polar-bears #glaciers #seabirds #ocean #life #climatechange #science #ecology #diversity
#WASSERKRAFT - #HYDROPOWER
Yet another long-term study found that: #Hydropower dams negatively impact the #Hydromorphology (water flows, course, banks) of #Rivers and #Streams => That is, both Hydropower construction and changes in #water levels: result in changes in the "riparian zones" of streams and rivers & were shown to significantly impact: food webs, shading & water temperature - which, in turn, impact and change invertebrates & fish populations. In other words, DON'T build #Dams - they damage the water flow, the banks, the aquatic animals and the humans that depend on them.
And this study was in #Sweden. Imagine the damage multiplied 1,000-fold in the tropics!
LINK: Untangling multiple pressure impacts in Swedish boreal streams
How New #Dams in #Amazon Put Entire #World at #Risk
Do you really know how important the intact Amazon is for the #rainforests, #humans (also for #indigenous people...) and #animals there? Do you know what the Amazon basin means to the world and its climate?
Wie neue #Dämme am #Amazonas die ganze #Welt in #Gefahr bringen
Weisst Du eigentlich, wie wichtig der intakte Amazonas für die #Regenwälder, #Menschen (auch für Indigene...) und #Tiere dort ist? Weisst Du, was das #Amazonsbecken für die Welt und ihr Klima bedeutet?
Find out how an increase in hydropower from a series of over 400 planned dams could harm the Amazon Rainforest.
LINK: How New Dams in Amazon Put Entire World at Risk
via International Rivers: "Dams and #mining go hand-in-hand in the #Amazon...and they will take this #vital #ecosystem down if we don't stop them."
LINK: Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon
Would more or other, even better efforts (as, for example, looking at the #MRC activities) "move something", help?
"[...] That’s why there’s growing academic desire for an increased awareness of not just #hydro_politics, but #hydro_diplomacy – that while #water presents obvious potential conflict, it could also accelerate #global #cooperation. [...]"
LINK: The most important resource of the century - why hydro politics will shape the 21st century
