HELP: AMAZON ON FIRE!!

Hi everyone!

No words to describe how broken heart I feel looking at the images from the Amazon on Fire! :( 

Hopefully, at the G7 meeting that will happen in these days, they will come up with some ideas on how to stop this emergency and follow up with a rescue plan to replant all those trees. Global warming is now and actions need to be in place!!

...maybe this is the wake-up call that we were waiting for.

#10 YEARS CHALLENGE

Hello All,

at the beginning of this year we have all been attempted to this #10yearchallenge and for one minute I was it too but then those images caught my attention and I found them much more inspiring.

Good reflection on where we are going ... sadly !! 

x

FLOODS

HI ALL,

Lately  I can see we talk more and more about flooding, storms and disasters happening due to the strong and unpredictable weather conditions as never before. 
The images that follow have been taken from the news of the last few months, in fact floods have been reported all over the world:

Italy: Treviso, Venice, Rome - October 2018
Spain: Malaga, Mayorca - October 2018
France - August 2018
US: Washington, Arizona - July 2018
South East Asia: Bangladesh ,India Myanmar - June 2018


Could they be linked to global warning, tree cutting and the conquer over the natural environment?

... have a thought!! 

Further information can be found at:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/24/heavy-rainfall-causes-severe-northeast-flooding/825060002/
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2018/10/30/maltempo-piave-verso-esondazione_a789689b-fb4d-40b0-bdf9-0d2f0d2dacb9.html
https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2018/oct/30/water-rises-to-three-feet-in-st-marks-basilica-after-venice-floods
https://watchers.news/2018/10/22/malaga-flood-spain-october-2018/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45134715
https://majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2018/10/10/53397/six-confirmed-dead-after-devastating-flash-floods.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/44540598

THE AMAZON IS IN DANGER AS NEVER BEFORE

Hello All,

Recently I read this news about the Amazon Rain Forest which denounce how trees are still being cut uncontrollably. 

I found this information VERY disturbing, and what it really upsets me is the fact that local authorities are not doing enough to protect this rare treasure.















Accordingly to the latest researches conducted by Institute for Man and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon), it seems that in March 2018 the deforestation rate in the Amazon increased of almost 250% compared to the same period of the 2017. I personally consider this data very alarming!!

The deforestation involves the states that surround the Amazon such as Mato Grosso (which counts for almost half of the trees cutting), Roraima, Para’, Amazonas and Rondionia, and this study declares that the issues lays on private ownership. 
In fact, the lands involved in the deforestation are not State property and therefore the authorities have difficulties in controlling them.
A different evaluation conducted by Soy Moratorium, support this savage trees cutting and it reports the need to cut trees in order to create land for soybeans crops for the local residents. Also, the agrarian reforms implemented in the last few years have supported this trend. 

It seems that the local Amazon administrations consider and evaluate mainly the opinion of the INPE (National Institute for Space Research) which sustains the complete opposite and affirms that nowadays Brazil is having the lowest rate of deforestation since the last twenty years.

Despite the fact the Google Earth Engine platform helps to monitor the deforestation and the forest degradation, the Brazilian authorities do not seem to take into consideration those data. The images not only reveal that the deforestation has increase of about ten times since 2017 but also the degradation of the forest has increase of a third as well.

As a result, there is a huge discrepancy on information, data and numbers and the only one who suffer in this limbo of miscommunication is the Amazon.

I am very disappointed about this brutal exploitation of the natural resources and I urge anyone who can advise me how I can help to preserve this piece of paradise to please contact me.

I want to save this green lung!!

For further information please visit the following websites:

http://conexaoplaneta.com.br/blog/desmatamento-na-amazonia-em-marco-e-243-maior-do-que-mesmo-periodo-do-ano-passado/

https://oglobo.globo.com/sociedade/sustentabilidade/devastacao-da-amazonia-aumentou-195-em-marco-de-2015-15910480

https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/brazil-reports-lowest-rate-of-amazonian-deforestation-in-two-decades/