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Preliminary data shows more than 5,000 sq km were cleared, still over six times the size of New York City.
Amazon deforestation fell over 50% in 2023 and as of August 2024 it was 46% lower than this time last year.
The Brazilian government has pledged to end Amazon deforestation entirely by 2030 and their current efforts have deforestation approaching the lowest it has been in the last six years.
🌳🦜📉 Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell sharply by 11% between August 2024 and July of this year! The decrease comes amid stronger environmental monitoring, along with increased enforcement of fines and seizures of machinery and livestock related to illegal forest clearing. In a significant drop from last year, deforestation in the region is at its lowest level in nearly a decade!
Brazil’s government says deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the year through July 2025 to its lowest level in nearly a decade, helped b
Not only must we conserve what remaining forests we have. We must also help nature bring back the forests we have lost. They are our natural flood control and climate control, water sources and purifiers, and yet so much more. And only when using trees native and adapted to the habitats we bring back, managed by people who live in or near these areas, planted and supported by everyone in the country, will this be most effective.
We’re the only part of nature that forgot it was nature
Forest conservation
Help us raise $32k to stop the clearcut of Sadie Creek Legacy Forests! … Elwha Legacy Forest Coalition needs your support for Save Sadie Cre
the elwha legacy forest coalition is fundraising to buy back two acres of forest from a logging company to save it from clear cutting. they intend to work with the lower elwha klallam tribe to preserve and protect this land for future generations. so many of our local forests are already exploited by these logging companies, this is an opportunity to save a small but important part of them.
the fundraiser is 70% complete, but if they do not make the goal by may 4 the funds will be returned to donors. please consider helping if you can and/or sharing!
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is a proposed global, permanent fund designed to support the long-term conservation of tropical
July 7, 2025 The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is a proposed global, permanent fund designed to support the long-term conservation of tropical forests. Spearheaded by the Government of Brazil, in dialogue with 11 other countries, the initiative is scheduled to be formally launched at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil. Unlike traditional conservation finance efforts that often rely on new donor pledges, the TFFF proposes an innovative approach. It mobilizes investments from governments, sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors to create a long-term investment facility that generates annual payments for forest conservation.
With the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), the starting signal for a completely new form of rainforest protection funding is set just
November 3, 2025
New evidence suggests that conserving forests, wetlands, and soils is critical not just for biodiversity, but for sustaining the rainfall th
Excerpt from this story from Anthropocene Magazine:
Researchers have made a fascinating discovery that the place rainfall derives from—the land or the sea—has huge bearing on how well crops will grow. Rain arising from the ocean, they found, is more reliable, whereas crops relying mainly on land-derived rainfall are more likely to struggle with unpredictability and drought.
Their study delves into what lies behind this land/ocean divide, and started with 16 years of satellite rainfall data, spanning the period between 2003 and 2019. Paired with rainfall models, the satellite data enabled the researchers to trace back where regional rainfall originated from: either through evaporation from the sea surface or from soils, forests, and other ecosystems on land.
Then, looking at key crops like maize, wheat, soybeans, and rice, and measuring traits like vegetation greenness that can be detected by satellites—greenness being a good proxy for growth levels—they determined how rainfall patterns affected the growth and yields of those crops.
This revealed that when the share of land-derived rainfall makes up 36% or more on croplands, they tend to suffer more. Two examples are the US Midwest and parts of East Africa, regions that both rely more heavily on rainfall that arises specifically from local land-based sources. The researchers found that crops in these regions are more likely to experience lower rainfall levels, more drought, and reduced productivity.
The study also notes that 40% of global maize and 60% of global wheat crops—two of the world’s staple crops—receive most of their rainfall from land-based evaporation, showing how consequential fluctuations in this rainfall variety could be.
Meanwhile, regions that receive less of their rainfall from the land and more from marine sources tended to experience more consistent rainfall patterns, leading to more stable growth and yields.
The factor behind this phenomenon, it seems, is the ongoing degradation of key rainfall reservoirs on land. Deforestation, often to make way for farmland, shrinks the acreage of dense, vapor-producing vegetation. Soils that become more exposed through erosion and poor farming methods are then less capable of locking in moisture that can later be evaporated to seed rainfall.
As these habitats are eroded, they become a less reliable source of moisture to drive rain, which in turn becomes less consistent and abundant.
This illustrates a concerning cycle of destruction between agriculture and the ecosystems that sustain it—but also highlights focal points for action, the researchers say.
