Compounding the threat to the orchids thriving in Busa is the lack of knowledge among the law enforcers at the various highway checkpoints ostensibly set up to check that wild plants and animals ...
An investigative report of 329 Indonesian nickel concessions by United States-based non-government organisation Mighty Earth and Indonesian partner organisation Satya Bumi found that the rate of forests lost to nickel mining is accelerating, with the number of deforestation alerts in mining concessions doubling between 2020 …
Mining is one of the top drivers of deforestation globally with tropical rainforests standing out as mining-induced deforestation hotspots . Moreover, deforestation within current mining leases suggests that the rate of mining-related forest loss has increased significantly over the past 10 years . These patterns, which are driven by a …
A new WWF report, "Extracted Forests: Unearthing the role of mining-related deforestation as a driver of global deforestation", sheds light on how the impacts of mining, currently the fourth largest driver of …
The primary agent of mangrove loss from 2000 to 2016 was human activity 62%, although only 3% was due to conversion of mangrove forests to human settlements and the loss and threat are declining (Goldberg et al. 2020).Rapid urban expansion was still seen into adjacent mangrove forests in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Bangkok, …
With gold prices skyrocketing and demand for other minerals on the rise, mining is a growing threat to ecosystems and communities around the world. In the new report, Undermining Rights: Indigenous Lands and Mining in the Amazon, WRI estimates that 1,131 Indigenous lands across the Amazon basin suffer from the impacts of legal …
Share above or see our pages Facebook Donate Youtube Envelope Link Bauxite Mining Threat The Northern Jarrah Forest is in imminent risk of losing important biodiversity, cultural and heritage values. JFP - Save Our Jarrah strives to protect a large section of the Northern Jarrah Forest near Jarrahdale, Western Australia for future generations.The …
Mining threats to biodiversity will increase as more mines target materials for renewable energy production and, without strategic planning, these new threats to biodiversity may surpass those ...
In a resolution issued last week, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) warned that mining on the Nassau Plateau, a 400-square-kilometer area of unprotected rainforest ...
Deforestation and forest degradation are the biggest threats to forests worldwide.; Over half of the tropical forests worldwide have been destroyed since the 1960s, and every second, more than one hectare of tropical forests is destroyed or drastically degraded.; The degradation and loss of forests threatens the survival of many species, and reduces the …
Mining operations need to clear the forest to dig the pit where the minerals will be extracted, as well as create access roads for heavy machinery coming and going from the site. But often, other ...
Yet the region's forests are under threat from logging, hydrodams and mining. Satellite data reveals a major new threat to Canada's boreal forests—tar sands development. According to data from Global Forest Watch, an online mapping platform that tracks tree cover loss and gain in near-real time, industrial development and forest fires …
A study published today in Global Environmental Change shows that the approval of Brazil's Bill 191 allowing mining on Indigenous land could be detrimental to up to 43 uncontacted Indigenous groups.
Industrial mining is linked to the loss of more than 1200 square miles of tropical forest across the globe between 2000 and 2019, according to a new study published this week in Proceedings of the ...
Mining poses serious and highly specific threats to biodiversity. However, mining can also be a means for financing …
Threats. Mining for gold, diamonds, and bauxite is a major driver of forest degradation and deforestation in Guyana. Illegal mining not only devastates Guyana's forests but also pollutes vital water sources that …
Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in the Amazon need meaningful action now to protect the forest, their ways of life, and the climate from illegal mining and deforestation committed by …
Related to key area 1, this study provides species-level data on the potential threat of mining on population abundance across the entire range of African great apes, a taxon threatened by extinction and …
The International Boreal Conservation Science Panel is focused on providing scientific expertise useful to decision makers considering the future of one of the world's last great conservation opportunities - the protection of Canada's boreal forest region.
This is a summary of: Engert, J. E. et al.Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests. Nature 629, 370–375 (2024).. The problem. By 2050, Earth is expected to have 25 ...
The mining sector is the fourth largest driver of deforestation after agriculture, wood production, and urban development. To tackle the threat that mining poses to forests, …
2. The many ways mining activities impact biodiversity. Mining affects biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (site, landscape, regional and global) through direct (i.e. mineral extraction) and indirect processes (via industries supporting mining operations, and external stakeholders who gain access to biodiversity-rich areas as the result of …
Nature Sustainability - Facilities that store the waste and tailings of mining operations pose a salient threat to biodiversity. Despite international consensus to …
Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon's future.
The government's own records show that the largest threat to both forests and people is land diversion for mining and other infrastructural development projects; over 14,000sq km of forests have ...
Image courtesy of Tempo. Indonesia, 2022. The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has seen almost 550,000 hectares (roughly 3.5 times the size of London) of rainforest destroyed since 2011 in its Central and Southeast provinces. Large swaths of nickel mining concessions were carved out of the provinces using forged documents, …
The ever-growing human consumption and population is the biggest cause of forest destruction due to the vast amounts of resources, products, services we take from it. ... agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building. Every year about 18m hectares of forest – an area the size of England and Wales – is cleared. World ...
Mining. Many parts of the hotspot are rich in gold and other valuable minerals, and their exploitation (especially surface mining) can cause direct loss of forest and other habitats, particularly because geodiversity of minerals tends to occur in the same areas as biodiversity. Climate Change
'Forest loss' or 'tree loss' captures two fundamental impacts on forest cover: deforestation and forest degradation. Deforestation is the complete removal of trees for the conversion of forest to another land use such as agriculture, mining, or towns and cities. It results in a permanent conversion of forest into an alternative land use.
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, over a third of the forests now lie within nickel mining concession areas, ... The threat is not just the mines. Since 2020, Jokowi has banned the export of raw Indonesian nickel ore, requiring that it be refined domestically. Chinese companies have rushed to sign deals to run this industry too.
Increased prices and political pressure are boosting illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, threatening forests, indigenous people, and conservation of biodiversity in protected areas. The rate of illegal mining deforestation increased more than 90% from 2017 to 2020, reaching 101.7 km2 annually in 2020 compared to 52.9 km2 …
This story originally appeared on WESA.. Pennsylvania forests are facing looming threats that could catastrophically change the state's landscape. Two academics, Ryan Utz, an assistant professor of water resources at Chatham University, and Walter Carson, an associate professor of plant community ecology at the University of …
However, along with climate change, development poses long-term implications on the future health of the boreal forest. The footprint of natural resource extraction industries the boreal forest already encompasses an area of at least 730,000 km 2 (180 million acres), largely from forestry, hydropower, mining industries, and oil and gas extraction.
