ROMA – Oggi 21 marzo, è la Giornata Internazionale delle Foreste, proclamata lo scorso novembre dall’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite. Greenpeace, in occasione di questa giornata ha diffuso delle foto che Lady Blitz ha deciso di pubblicare.
Spiega Greenpeace che
“Senza le foreste non ci sarebbe vita sulla Terra. In tempi di cambiamenti climatici le foreste trattengono circa 300 miliardi di tonnellate di carbonio, ovvero 40 volte le emissioni di gas serra che emettiamo ogni anno a livello globale. Sono la casa di milioni di persone che vivono delle foreste, ma anche mammiferi, uccelli, rettili, insetti, alberi, fiori e pesci. ‘La distruzione di una foresta in una parte del globo può avere un impatto disastroso dall’altra parte del Pianeta. Alcuni scienziati hanno recentemente dimostrato come la perdita di foreste in Amazzonia e in Africa centrale riduca notevolmente le precipitazioni nel Midwest negli Stati Uniti’ spiega Chiara Campione, responsabile campagna Foreste Greenpeace Italia”
“Dall’Amazzonia all’Africa Centrale, dal Canada alla Siberia, dalla Papua Nuova Guinea all’Indonesia, da Sumatra alla nostra Europa Greenpeace diffonde oggi immagini delle foreste più belle del mondo, con l’auspicio di raggiungere presto l’obiettivo Deforestazione Zero e conservare questi preziosi ecosistemi”.
Ecco le fantastiche foto che Greenpeace ha diffuso in occasione della Giornata Internazionale delle Foreste:
Spring in the taiga, Lazorskiy Reserve, Primorye Region in the Southeast of Russia. Forest with pink flowers on the ground. Fruehling in der Primorski Taiga im Lazorskiy Reserve, Region Primorje im Suedosten von Russland. Waldboden mit rosa Blumen.
An aerial view of the Bairaman River and surrounding forest. The river flows through Papua New Guinea's forests which are the third largest, and some of the most diverse, on Earth.
Intact peatland rainforest reflected in the afternoon sunlight on 'Lake Besar', during a journey through some of Riau's most beautiful forests up the Serkap river. This area is home to a local community whose life depends on fishing. Now the water PH is changing and the fish catch has dropped massively due to nearby draining deforested peatlands. The area is also under threat of deforestation as currently the Asia-Pacific Resource International Holdings (APRIL) company is trying to get concessions.
The Meratus Mountains, South Kalimantan. Greenpeace is calling on Indonesian citizens to be part of the 'Tiger's Eye Community' to protect Indonesian forest from destruction and is urging the government to take immediate action to protect the natural habitat by expanding moratorium areas, evaluate existing permits and implement full peatland forest protection.
Natural peatland forest in Sungai Sembilang Nature Conservation Park in South Sumatra. Greenpeace, together with representatives from the National Parliament and the Indonesian National Police, are in Sumatra to bear witness to the huge destruction of Indonesias natural peatland forest. Deforestation is a key source of Indonesias greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace is demanding the Indonesian government to fully review the existing logging concessions and to institute full protection of peatland and natural forests.
Looking up at beech trees in autumn colours. Spessart Mountains. Blick auf Buchen mit Herbstfaerbung im Spessart.
Local women and children on a road coming from a water hole. Frauen und Kinder kommen von der Wasserstelle im Regenwald bei Yandongi.
Giant tree in the rainforest. Baum im Regenwald bei Mondjamboli.
A spirit bear crosses a river in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada.
The coastal rainforest of Cameroon. This forest, at the fringe of the Congo Basin, is a biodiversity hotspot, home to endangered species including chimpanzees and forest elephants. It also provides hunting and fishing grounds, building materials, fuel wood and medicine for local communities. The forest, and the people and animals who depend on it, are being threatened by a proposed palm oil plantation that would flatten an area eight times the size of Manhattan. The corporation behind the proposed project, US-based Herakles Farms, is pressing ahead with forest clearance, despite widespread local opposition.
Baka (pygmy) people, indigenous forest tribes of Cameroon. A young boy holds a knife. The Congo forests are of global significance for biodiversity conservation and of critical importance in climate regulation. Millions of people depend on them for their basic needs of shelter, food and medicine. The biggest areas of yet largely intact rainforest are found within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The World Bank and its donors are promoting a similar model of industrial logging in the DRC to the one they advocated in the Cameroon a decade ago under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty and help the countrys economic development. So far, rather than fast tracking development and alleviating poverty, industrial logging has caused environmental destruction and social conflict and is failing both the rainforests and the people of the Cameroon in numerous ways. It is leading to the degradation of much of the Cameroons rainforest and has done little to reduce poverty. Wildlife species are suffering as new logging roads provide easy access for hunters into otherwise inaccessible areas. Unless the World Bank learns from its mistakes in the Cameroon and reviews its development model, the people and rainforests of the DRC will suffer a similar fate but the scale will be far greater.
Fog in the trees of the Atlantic Forest, Parana, Brazil. Nebel in den Baeumen des Atlantischen Regenwaldes. Curitiba, Parana, Brasilien.
Toucan in the Mato Grosso do Sul, Bonito, Brazil. Tukan im Mato Grosso do Sul, Bonito, Brasilien.
Wide view over the Amazon Rainforest, Rio Negro, Serra de Araca, Brazil. Weiter Blick ueber den Tropischen Regenwald, Amazonas, Rio Negro, Serra de Araca, Amazonien, Brasilien.
Aerials south of Santarem and along the road BR163. Lack of governance is prevalent in the area surrounding the road with considerable deforestation, cattle ranchers and loggers invading protected areas, land grabbing, and social conflict between communities and migrant labour workers.
Monkey in the Atlantic Forest, Ilheus, Bahia. Maehnenaeffchen im Atlantischen Regenwald. Ilheus, Bahia, Brasilien.
Saimiri monkey (Macaco da Mao de Ouro-Golden hand Macaco). Greenpeace document a number of geographical areas in the Amazon, looking at the impacts of deforestation on various aspects of forest life. They look at people, natural wildlife and the landscape which has drastically altered as huge areas are cleared to meet agricultural demand. Soya plantations are the leading cause of deforestation in the region.
