42% of forests of the Amazon that have not suffered human intervention since 1985 are in danger of disappearance, according to a study published this Tuesday by the Amazon Network of Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG), because they do not have a special territorial management regime.
The other half of the calls ‘stable forests’, those that have maintained their natural condition with hardly any human intervention, are protected because they are classified as a protected natural area or because they are part of indigenous territories.
Currently, the 69.9% of the surface of the Amazon is covered by this type of forest.
From the Amazon network they warn that between 1985 and 2022, 80 million hectares of this type of forest have disappeared in the Amazon, while an increase of 168.7% the extensions dedicated to economic activities in the region.
As explained by the RAISG, areas that are not protected are more vulnerable to agricultural, oil, mining and logging activities.
Data from the Amazon network reveal that the 86% of the deforestation that occurred between 1985 and 2022 took place outside protected areas or indigenous territories, which according to the organization’s analysis, carry out “a key role as barriers to the process of deforestation and degradation of their forests.”
Natalia Calderón, director of the Friends of Nature Foundation of Bolivia, one of RAISG’s partner organizations, warns that “Stable forests are essential so that the planet’s temperature does not increase by 1.5 °C, which could mean a catastrophe for humanity.”
These territories, distributed between Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, store approximately 79 billion metric tons of carbon.
Source: Gestion
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