{"id":31320,"date":"2024-01-29T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/?p=31320"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:05:29","slug":"brazil-trees-forest-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/environment\/brazil-trees-forest-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Forest, Brazil, 82% of tree species could disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the forest area spanning the southeastern region of Brazil, two-thirds of all species and more than four-fifths of endemic ones are threatened with extinction<\/h2>\n

by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n

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In Brazil, four out of five endemic tree species found in the Atlantic Forest would now be at risk of extinction<\/strong>. This is the most striking figure to emerge from research<\/a> published in recent weeks in the journal Science.<\/p>\n

The figure “came as a shock,” explained Renato Lima<\/strong>, a professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and co-author of the research in a statement<\/a> released by FAPESP<\/strong> – Foundation for Research Support, a public organization active in the Brazilian state itself. “We took forest availability into account for each species, whether or not it was healthy forest, for example. Not all species are able to survive in degraded fragments, so the actual situation may be even more alarming<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Forests, climate and carbon storage: the lesson of Finnish trees<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n