According to a newly released study, the Amazon is in such bad condition that parts of it may never recover.
The study was conducted by the Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG) along with the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA). And it covers all nine of the countries in South America that include areas of the Amazon.
“The tipping point is not a future scenario, but rather, a stage already present in some areas of the region,” the report concludes. “Brazil and Bolivia concentrate 90 percent of all combined deforestation and degradation. As a result, savannization is already taking place in both countries.”
Only tiny Suriname and French Guiana, have at least half their forests still intact.
Agriculture is responsible for 84 percent of deforestation, and the amount of land given over to farming has tripled since 1985, according to the report.
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