disappears Central American forest mass
Central America in the last decade saw the greatest percentage loss of forests even though solutions are being sought to stop the pair debacle, according to FAO.
15/02/2011
Central America in the last decade saw the greatest percentage loss of forests even though few solutions are being sought to stop the debacle, according to FAO.
Agroinformación .- Central America in the last decade saw the greatest percentage loss of forests even though few solutions are being sought to stop the debacle, according to FAO.
The report "State of the World's Forests" says that the rate of mass loss of forest in the region including Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Guatemala was from 1.19% pa between 2000 and 2010.
Thus, the region grew from 21.9 million hectares of forest in 2000 to 19.4 million hectares in 2010.
In the Caribbean, for example, forest area increased by one million hectares in 20 years by the natural expansion of forests on abandoned agricultural lands, "says the study.
The situation remains bleak, but with a slight improvement.
The conversion of forest land is the main cause of deforestation, according to research, which determined that 90% of these trees is used for firewood.
Luis Romano, Humboldt Center El Salvador, said the deforestation of pine forests in the north and mangroves in the coastal zone is causing serious environmental damage.
Cristofer Lopez, Foundation for Ecodevelopment and Conservation of Guatemala said that the advance of agricultural frontier "you'll subtracting areas to forests."
However, runs may be being put into some ways to avoid such a situation as projects to reduce carbon emissions, control of forest fires and stoves to avoid cutting of firewood.
In November 2010, U.S. Global Carbon Group launched a project of 200,000 dollars for the purchase of carbon credits in the north of Guatemala in the department of Petén, which protect in return 11,000 hectares of forest.
The initiative is part of Redd, arising from the use of forests as an alternative to capture CO2 and thus help to mitigate global warming.
Alejandro Argueta, National Institute of Forestry, said that working on several programs to stop the vast deforestation driven by the lack of forest culture, high dependence on wood and expanding the agricultural frontier.
"The country is losing 73,148 hectares of forest year. At that rate, if we do nothing, in 55 years we ran out of forest, "he said.
But he must tread carefully in the recovery of forests. Carlos Salvatierra, non-governmental Guatemalan School of Ecological Thought Savia said it is very important to distinguish between plantations and forests.
Costa Rica is the only country in the region with forest mass is increasing, according to the latest forest presented in late January by the FAO.
Karla Cordoba of non-governmental Fundación Neotropica, Costa Rica, said the country has tried various initiatives to achieve this, as reforestation mangrove in the area of \u200b\u200bGolfo Dulce, on the southern coast.
Something very important to the success of this work has been community involvement. remember that forests provide a host of environmental services that include oxygen, habitat for species, protection of water resources, scenic beauty and others.
Agroinformación Newsletter published in Spain.
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