The various initiatives for the protection and conservation of the Atlantic Forest were recognized by the United Nations (UN) during the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP15). The event, held this Tuesday (13) in Montreal, Canada, recognized nine other nature restoration actions promoted in different parts of the planet.
Recognition brings these initiatives the possibility of relying on the United Nations for promotion, technical support and project financing. The mission is to ensure that the 10 initiatives, working together, can restore more than 68 million hectares – an area that is larger, for example, than countries like France, Myanmar and Somalia. There is an estimate that this work is capable of creating 15 million jobs.
Winning projects were declared World Restoration Landmark Initiatives. They were selected under the banner of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, which is a movement to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of natural spaces.
The executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Inger Andersen, says that collaboration is needed to build a sustainable future. “Transforming our relationship with nature is the key to reversing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, the loss of nature and biodiversity, pollution and waste,” she explains.
The director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, argues that restoring biomes represents the possibility of improving the lives of human beings. “Inspired by these initiatives, we can learn to restore our ecosystems to improve production, nutrition, the environment and lives for all, leaving no one behind.”
Atlantic Forest Trinational Pact
UN recognition was given to hundreds of organizations that seek to protect and restore the biome, which has a great diversity of flora and fauna.
Originally, the Atlantic Forest covered a swath of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, but it has been greatly reduced over the centuries due to logging, agricultural expansion and city building. In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest is present in more than half of the states.
Around 700,000 hectares of the biome have already been restored, but the goal is to restore another 1 million hectares by 2030 and 15 million by 2050.
Source: CNN Brasil
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