Beauty, biodiversity, and Indigenous people’s cultural wisdom aside, its gift to the world is 20% of our oxygen
“Nixiwaka Yawanawá is a member of the Yawanawá tribe, a community of Indigenous people who live within the Amazon rainforest, on the Acre River Headwaters Indigenous Land. Nixiwaka asks us to consider why a way of life that is designed to be entirely in tune with its environment and resources is being destroyed by a way of life that isn’t.” This video was featured in tUrn2 (spring 2020). [16:13]
“The Amazon rainforest has been reduced by about 17% since the 1970s.” Vox explores the history of this destruction and the state of the rainforest now. Watch the and in this three-part series. [11:44]
“Scientists have used satellites to track the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest for several decades — enough time to see some remarkable shifts in the pace and location of clearing.”
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Learn about the species diversity, climate stabilization, cultural importance, and other benefits that make the Amazon “so vital to life on Earth.”
“Let’s get together and do everything we can to help the people who are protecting the forests. To think of trees as individuals with a value of their own, not just their value to us. That’s my plea to you today.” [05:55]