As Amazon deforestation worsens, Woodwell-IPAM partnership builds strength Miles Grant Director of Publications & Media Relations
After 2019 saw the worst year for Amazon deforestation and fires in a decade, scientists at Woodwell Climate Research Center and IPAM AmazĂ´nia have made a new push to end deforestation and reduce associated fires. In 2020, we initiated a landmark effort to track Amazon destruction as it happens, launched an innovative mechanism to encourage rural farmers and ranchers to conserve Amazon forest, and brought international attention to Amazon conservation with a Climate Week NYC event. Woodwell and IPAM have partnered for 25 years to study the Amazon, work with local governments and Indigenous groups to help sustain it, and examine the climatological and ecological benefits of avoiding deforestation and promoting sustainable agriculture. Learning how to stop deforestation and assist forest regrowth can not only help tropical countries achieve their climate goals by maintaining and restoring carbon stocks in protected forests, Indigenous reserves, and private properties, it can also protect biodiversity and forest ecosystem services.
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