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Protecting forests: Are early warning systems effective?

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Hiroaki Okonogi

Hiroaki Okonogi is special advisor in the Global Environment Department at JICA.

An ipe (lapacho) tree is seen in this aerial view of the Amazon rainforest near the city of Novo Progresso, Para State, September 24, 2013. The Amazon rainforest is being eaten away at by deforestation, much of which takes place as areas are burnt by large fires to clear land for agriculture. Initial data from Brazil's space agency suggests that destruction of the vast rainforest - the largest in the world - spiked by more than a third over the past year, wiping out an area more than twice the size of the city of Los Angeles. If the figures are borne out by follow-up data, they would confirm fears of scientists and environmental activists who warn that farming, mining and Amazon infrastructure projects, coupled with changes to Brazil's long-standing environmental policies, are reversing progress made against deforestation. Environmental issues will be under the spotlight as a United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Warsaw, Poland, on November 11. Picture taken on September 24, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS AGRICULTURE)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 10 OF 55 FOR PACKAGE 'AMAZON - FROM PARDISE TO INFERNO' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'AMAZON INFERNO'

Protecting forests: Are early warning systems effective?

Eiji Yamada, Hiroaki Okonogi, and Takahiro Morita

Friday, July 2, 2021

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