Indigenous Communities Protect the Amazon, Although deforestation and fires have eaten into this iconic forest in recent decades, Indigenous communities are helping protect some of its most intact parts.
and fires have eaten into this iconic forest in recent decades, Indigenous communities are helping protect some of its most intact parts.
Standing, healthy forests breathe in carbon dioxide and store it in their trunks, limbs and roots. But if trees decompose after being cut or burn during a fire, they return that carbon to the atmosphere. Although the Amazon is still a net carbon sink — capturingThe map above shows Indigenous-managed territories in the Amazon River basin, which includes portions of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
In Brazil, forests outside of community protection are being lost to commercial farming and cattle ranching, extractive industries, infrastructure and other developments. The map above shows biomass data from NASA’sof the Amazon.
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