1. Global strategies
  2. Campaigning to save forests

Campaigning to save forests

  • Opposing destruction of forests
  • Campaigning against burning of woodlands
  • Protesting vegetation clearance
  • Campaigning against forest clearance

Implementation

For decade, landowners in Rio Grande do Sul in the south of Brazil have used fire as a means to clear fields and woods for cattle ranching, in violation of the state legislation which prohibits this. In 1993, a team of environmental activists and forestry guards made a tour of the worst affected areas, confronted landowners and later denounced them to the Public Ministry. The action made headlines and later led to a debate in the House of Representatives.

Claim

An estimated 17.2 million hectares of forest lands and thousands of plant and animal species become extinct each year, many without even being noticed.

There are other economies based on forests that don't involve cutting them down. Often clear cutting forests ruin their other economic uses. The non- consumptive economic side of the forests is not well understood and has lost economic share to the business of clear cutting forests.

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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Forestry
  • Geography » Land type/use
  • Plant life » Plants
  • Societal problems » Destruction
  • Societal problems » Protection
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    May 20, 2022