According to a report by Amazon institute of People and the Environment (Imazon) in 2022, the total area of deforestation in the Amazon in 2021 reached 10,362km2, the largest in the last ten years. Coincidentally, in recent years in the southern region of the Amazon (Acre, Rondônia, southern Amazonas) there has been an unprecedented low temperature caused by the cold front. This abnormal phenomenon is considered to come from a polar air mass that entered the southern region of this region, which was naturally blocked by a dense mass of hot air created by the Amazon rainforest, inducing the fact as a result of the weakening of the Amazon rainforest. The phenomenon could be another reason for the change in the magnetic field on the continent, that is, who knows, a result of both...
However, observers of the climate in the region already confirm with more certainty that the process of savannization of the Amazon forest has begun, almost passing (or already was) the tipping point for forest restoration, resulting in the transformation of the dense humid forest into another form of vegetation. irreversibly. There is still an accelerated risk of reduction of the forest due to the increase in hot spots in the summer in recent years, each time breaking a record of hot spots areas. At the same time, natural disasters increase, such as an imbalance of rainfall in some regions of the south/northeast of the country, causing damage of great magnitude, scarce or exaggerated precipitation, which is the fact. This reminds us that it directly affects the country's agricultural production and results in a high value of the basic food basket. After all, those who suffer are always the low-income population.
In 2022, the State of Amazonas, which has the largest continuous forest in the Amazon region, recorded an increase in the poverty rate to 58,8%, extreme poverty to 14,3% of the entire population of the state (in 2021: 51%, 12,5% respectively - The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). Logically, in order to survive, the needy population has no choice but to opt for a quick conversion of value into natural wealth, despite quickly exploiting the forest, or to abandon land and sell it at a ridiculous price. Both cases result in increased deforestation. In this context, there is no alternative but to prioritize subsistence today, tomorrow rather than worrying about the environment and climate change. In this way, the effect of climate change advances without waiting, crossing borders, each time expanding its harmful consequences. This phenomenon enunciates that there is no other time to promote forest preservation activity on the basis of population in this region than any other time.
Speaking of preservation of the forest, without considering as a priority the establishment of the life of the people of the forest who act in their real-scale production, any project ends in just principle. We need to propose and execute the project together with a suggestion for land use with sustainable economic return, maximizing a small area without having to advance deforestation frontier. Only in this way is it feasible to maintain the remaining forest in a real way. To keep the forest standing, and/or recover the open/degraded area, you need to have a personal relationship established with residents, producers, people of the forest area. And there needs to be activities that cause a change of concept: “a tree is just to be harvested, not to be planted”, demonstrating in fact a viable economic model. Therefore, it is essential to harmonize well between those who try to support and who use the soil, forest and water resources. Our team of the Center for Sustainable Rural Projects of the Amazon - PRUSA, composed of specialists on the objective, sustainable production, we will directly address the forest (biome ecosystem) and the community (people) simultaneously.
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