Forest
Loss
Colombia
The
Amazon Rainforest, in the last 40 years
has lost more of 20% of the forest;
because Cattle ranching (65-70%); Small-scale
subsistence agriculture (20-25%); Large-scale
commercial agriculture (5-10%); Logging
legal and illegal (2-3%); Fires, mining,
urbanization, road construction, dams
(1-2%). Data Global
Forest Watch
Is
very important to work with the Colombian
Government, Conservationists, Scientists,
Universities, Colleges and local people,
to establish alternative and sustainable
economic income to the Indigenous Communities
and people in the Amazon Forest to preserve
the biggest forest in our planet.
Mexico
The
33.7% — or about 64,238,000 hectares
— of Mexico is forested. Of this,
51.1% —or roughly 32,850,000 hectares—is
classified as primary forest, the most
biodiverse form of forest. Change
in Forest Cover: Between 1990 and 2000,
Mexico lost an average of 347,600 hectares
of forest per year.
The
amounts to an average annual deforestation
rate of 0.50%. Between 2000 and 2005,
the rate of forest change decreased
by 21.1% to 0.40% per annum. In total,
between 1990 and 2005, Mexico lost 6.9%
of its forest cover, or around 4,778,000
hectares. Mexico lost -5,925,000 hectares
of its primary forest cover during that
time.
Deforestation
rates of primary cover have decreased
15.3% since the close of the 1990s.
Measuring the total rate of habitat
conversion (defined as change in forest
area plus change in woodland area minus
net plantation expansion) for the 1990-2005
interval, Mexico lost 7.4% of its forest
and woodland habitat.
Biodiversity
and Protected Areas: Mexico
has some 2765 known species of amphibians,
birds, mammals and reptiles according
to figures from the World Conservation
Monitoring Centre. Of these, 34.0% are
endemic, meaning they exist in no other
country, and 12.3% are threatened. Mexico
is home to at least 26071 species of
vascular plants, of which 47.9% are
endemic. 0.6% of Mexico is protected
under IUCN categories I-V. . Data
Mongabay . Mexico
Is
very important to work with the Mexican
Government, Conservationists, Scientists,
Universities, Colleges and local people
to establish alternative and sustainable
economic income to the Indigenous Communities
- Ejidatarios, and local people to preserve
one of the biggest forest in our planet.
