Saving Forests to Save Biodiversity

In the past decade, scientists in Borneo discovered insects, plants, fish, even birds unfamiliar with science three times per month. This hidden diversity is not only Borneo. New Guinea, which is shared with Papua New Guinea in Indonesia recently harvested a large crop of new creatures at the far Foja Mountains at the northern tip of the island. However, even if scientists are recording biodiversity in Indonesia (see page 1270), it is increasingly threatened. The list of threatened plants and animals is long. Indonesia may have the highest deforestation rate in the world. However, over the past five years, Indonesia has reduced illegal logging, particularly by restoring the devastated areas and protecting the rest of the forest with a massive agreement of 1 billion dollars with Norway in earlier this year There are efforts Forest people and Indonesian political leaders are taking a new attitude

The most powerful strategic cost to tackle climate change efforts and biodiversity savings is lowest. As tropical forests are in developing countries, the costs of acquisition, protection, restoration and management of land in tropical forests are often very low compared to industrial and technological reduction measures (cleaning technology). In contrast, in 2015, the World Bank International Finance Corporation (IFC) borrowed $ 2.3 billion to reduce its carbon footprint by about 250 million tons over the next 25 years. The above investment in tropical forest protection will eliminate 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in the same period, provide the necessary system benefits and reduce funds by 99.5%.

Today, the treasure of another environment is knocking on the door. I am referring to the Amazon rainforest. This is another lush rainforest with amazing biodiversity; plants, trees, animals, insects, amphibians and other species can be seen in this tropical rainforest. However, deforestation due to increased people's living and use has the potential to transform the Amazon rainforest into another eastern island, so I do not want to experience such a tragedy again.

Instituto Araguaia is a local non-profit organization in Brazil that is working on the relief of the Cantão ecosystem that meets Cerrado, the most varied savanna among the most diverse savannas on the planet. CantãoPark along the vast Araguaa river is the best hideout for river species of other endangered species such as Araguaia puffer fish, gigantic otter, turtle, the world's largest freshwater fish, and Arapai. We protect important habitats from deep inside the park and monitor predators such as dolphins. They are truly unique and wonderful: in the rainy season, they chase fish with a deep submerged trunk of the flooded forest; in the dry season they can climb from the pool to the pool, climb the sandbar I will find the prey at a depth of 20 cm. Other dolphins do not do this. When they do, they sometimes become the victims of Jaguar, the largest aquatic life of all the big cats. And that person will strike them from the riverbank!