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La forêt française, un bien commun en danger
Pierre Puchot, Monde Diplomatique, mai 2024.
Extrait :
Si la préservation des vieilles forêts (2 à 3 % de la couverture forestière en métropole) est inscrite officiellement dans la « Stratégie nationale biodiversité 2030 », rien n’est fait concrètement au niveau législatif pour assurer leur protection. Un exemple douloureux en est la hêtraie du Ciron, en Gironde. L’une des plus vieilles forêts d’Europe occidentale, elle constitue une chance unique pour comprendre de quelle manière ces espaces peuvent survivre au changement climatique.
Ingénieur de recherche à l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (Inrae), M. Alexis Ducousso la découvre par hasard en 1991. Comme les trois quarts des forêts françaises, celle-ci est alors entièrement privée. En tombant sur cette hêtraie, le chercheur « ravale tous [ses] cours d’écologie ».
Une première étude génétique montre qu’elle est différente de toutes celles d’Europe. Une autre révèle que les hêtres du Ciron sont davantage différents les uns des autres que les hêtres des Balkans de ceux de Normandie.
Autre « anomalie » : les hêtres du Ciron se croisent entre eux. Incapables d’expliquer la présence de ces spécimens dans un climat si chaud, les chercheurs s’intéressent alors à l’histoire du peuplement.
« On a eu une surprise incroyable, raconte l’ingénieur. Pendant l’ère glaciaire, le hêtre était déjà présent ! » Dans la vallée du Ciron, le plus vieux charbon de bois date de 43 000 ans. Pourtant, à cette époque, la forêt a pratiquement disparu d’Europe. Le hêtre du Ciron est donc passé d’un climat glacial au climat actuel, en théorie beaucoup trop chaud pour lui.
The Brazilian Amazon experienced a 47% decrease in deforestation in April compared to last year, marking the lowest level in five years, and a 51% decrease over the past 12 months.
Since President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, his administration has effectively curbed deforestation by reinstating conservation programs, strengthening environmental agencies, and supporting Indigenous rights.
I did my PhD field work in Brazil's Cerrado, so this is especially heartbreaking to read.
Earthsight report links supply chains of fashion giants H&M and Zara to large-scale illegal deforestation, land-grabbing, violence and corruption in Brazil.
🤏 Un tout petit chèque. Rien de 500 millions d’euros. C’est le montant d’argent public bientôt alloué à des projets miniers.
👋 Cela fait plus d’un mois que nous alertons le ministère des Finances sur la nécessité de garantir que son nouveau fonds d’investissement ne finance ni déforestation, ni violations de droits humains. Mais comme jusque là ils nous ignorent, on a essayé comme ça !
🚘 La demande de minerais critiques destinés aux technologies de la #transition énergétique, notamment les véhicules électriques devrait être x4 d’ici 2040… Et avec elle l’impact de l’exploitation minière sur les #forêts et populations locales.
🤡 Mais cela n’a pas l’air d’inquiéter le ministre des Finances qui est un train de signer un « chèque en blanc » pour l’industrie minière, et ce sans aucune concertation.
⛏️ La plus grande mine de nickel au monde, qui menace des peuples autochtones et leurs forêts pourrait notamment bénéficier de ce fonds d’investissement. Retrouvez notre enquête sur ce scandale ici
In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found....
Companies producing furniture for the Swedish multinational homeware brand IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe's last remaining old-growth forests in Romania, an investigation published by Greenpeace on Wednesday has revealed....
What’s so bad about a road?
Roads are forest killers.
"A road means access. Once roads are bulldozed into rainforests, illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive. Once they get access, they can destroy forests, harm native ecosystems and even drive out or kill indigenous peoples. This looting of the natural world robs cash-strapped nations of valuable natural resources."
All over the world, governments must take real action to ensure financial institutions are not funding our own extinction! #deforestation#environment#climatechange
The overall rate of primary forest loss across the tropics remained stubbornly high in 2023, putting the world well off track from its net-zero deforestation target by 2030, according to a new report from the World Resources Institute.
The few bright spots were Brazil and Colombia, where changes in political leadership helped drive down deforestation rates in the Amazon.
Government officials blamed the floods on heavy rainfall, but environmental groups have cited the disaster as the latest example of deforestation and environmental degradation intensifying the effects of severe weather across Indonesia.
"Government officials blamed the floods on heavy rainfall, but environmental groups have cited the disaster as the latest example of #deforestation and environmental degradation intensifying the effects of severe weather across Indonesia."
Where will all the microbats go when the NSW forests are logged and clear-felled?
Decline of rare UK bat linked to tree felling for British empire’s fleets
"Rife deforestation 500 years ago aligns with western barbastelle slump, finds study of bat DNA."
"The examples of flora and fauna disappearing because of human excesses over the past 50 years are manifold, but research has found that the decline of a characterful bat began in the UK when its trees were felled for shipbuilding 500 years ago."
"“These bats usually roost in mature oak and beech trees, and move around every few nights – so they benefit from areas with substantial woodland cover. Our findings reveal that the northern and southern British populations have declined over several centuries, beginning about 500 years ago. This coincides with a period of widespread tree-felling to supply wood for colonial shipbuilding. It is likely that the decline we found was triggered by this loss of woodland – which has continued since that period.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/decline-of-rare-uk-bat-linked-to-tree-felling-for-british-empires-fleets
A ‘zero-deforestation’ approach overseas
while logging continues in NSW
"The Committee had recommended the Government prevent UK businesses from trading in commodities linked to UN-defined deforestation in all cases, regardless of whether the deforestation was illegal or permitted by local laws. This ‘zero-deforestation’ approach would encourage consistency in trading such commodities across UK and European markets, increasing protections for areas at risk of deforestation."
"But in its response to the Committee’s report, The UK’s contribution to tackling global deforestation, the Government said it believed “the only way to achieve zero global deforestation in supply chains is to work in partnership with producer countries – and that working in partnership requires us to uphold and respect national laws.”
#Brazil tells landowners to stop setting fires in Amazon 'climate emergency'
"Those who deliberately set fire to private areas will have their properties embargoed and no longer be able to obtain funding, according to the head of environment agency IBAMA, Rodrigo Agostinho."
"If we hadn't reduced #deforestation by almost 50% we would be living through the Apocalypse," Silva said. "Right now we're in a #ClimateEmergency in Brazil."
"Deforestation in #Brazil's #Amazon has decreased 40% in the first three months of 2024 from a year earlier, Environment Minister Marina Silva said on Tuesday.
Silva told reporters at an event in Brasilia that the data are "highly significant" because they follow a 50% drop in #deforestation in 2023. She did not provide detailed figures."
Snack giant PepsiCo sourced palm oil from razed Indigenous land – investigation (news.mongabay.com)
In the last few years it is likely that PepsiCo has been using in its production palm oil from deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern Peru, a new investigation has found....
Europe's last ancient forests being cut down for IKEA furniture, report shows (www.brusselstimes.com)
Companies producing furniture for the Swedish multinational homeware brand IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe's last remaining old-growth forests in Romania, an investigation published by Greenpeace on Wednesday has revealed....
As California wildfire season nears, startup BurnBot is working on a high-tech approach to prevention (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
BurnBot raised $20 million for technology and services to prevent wildfires.
In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
Government officials blamed the floods on heavy rainfall, but environmental groups have cited the disaster as the latest example of deforestation and environmental degradation intensifying the effects of severe weather across Indonesia.