MARSEILLE, France - On September 10, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) approved Motion 129, the call by Indigenous peoples to protect 80% of the Amazon Rainforest by 2025!
Motion 129 is an Indigenous peoples’ call to protect 80% of the Amazon by 2025 to avoid a catastrophic “tipping point” of no return. The passing of the motion is a historic triumph for Indigenous defenders in the Amazon Rainforest. Proposed by José Gregorio Diaz Mirabal, the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon (COICA), the Amazonia 80% by 2025 Initiative includes Stand.Earth, Amazon Watch, Artists For Amazonia, Avaaz, One.Earth, RAISG, the Wild Foundation, and NooWorld.
This decision came at a critical time. 17% of the Amazon has suffered deforestation and an additional 17% of its rainforests have been degraded. Scientists have concluded that if 20-25% of the Amazon is destroyed, Earth’s largest tropical ecosystem would reach a tipping point with disastrous effects for climate both locally and globally. Immediate action is needed, and 80% x 2025 is just the beginning!
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The rainforests are so important not just from a perspective of whose land it is but also for clean air.
The Amazon is vital to our home
The Amazon is being deforested at an alarming rate and the caretakers of the land are being forced to give up their ways of living and for what? Economic development? For whom???
I think 800% by 2025 is too late - 17% is gone now bolsanaro and his gangsters will do all they can to destroy their own home....he is another trump, a corrupt greedy psychopath.
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Rainforests are like the lungs of the world in terms of oxygen. They are like the treasuries of the world in terms of biodiversity
I was in the Amazon jungle and I was enchanted. I know how much the Amazon absorbs carbon and worry very much about climate change.
I stand by the rainforest and her people
To ensure the future, and speed up protections before 2025
We need to save out HOME, our planet. Saving the Amazon is necessary to save Mother Earth.
The rainforest is a home to many beings and the lungs of the planet. We can't keep destroying our home.
All the obvious reasons, like climate change, not destroying indigenous peoples lives,just not buggering everything up
We MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE NOW IF WE ARE GOING TO SAVE OUR PLANET FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
i'ths very important
Mother Earth which all living things rely on is being raped by Big Corporations and her defenders the indigenous people of the world push aside and killed.
The Amazon Rainforest is an incredibly diverse and vital life-sustaining ecosystem. Our common future depends on its long-term protection.
The Amazon rainforest is the lungs of the earth. Without, we die. It´s that simple.
The earth NEEDS it's precious areas protected. We are already in a downward spiral created by man and greed for MORE. We need to protect what we can before they are gone forever. Please stand up for the earth and indiginous peoples everywhere who are courageously standing up for life and our future on earth.
We are the last ones who can effect change on this, there is no time to waste
love over greed.