After decades of conservation, why is the Amazon still under threat?
- Surely, millions of dollars of conservation efforts should have put an end to rainforest destruction and wildlife loss in the Amazon? It’s not that easy.
- The factors that are bringing millions of people into the forests and the market pressures that create timber are constantly changing and evolving.
- While insufficient funding limits the scope of conservation work, just throwing money in the region will not solve the problems. Organizations such as WWF(World Wildlife Fund ), which have invested significant financial and human resources in conserving the Amazon, have created milestones in setting up protected areas, advising on land use and environmental policy and raising public awareness.
- Support for Amazon conservation, both from within the confines of the Basin and from government and NGO efforts have made it more difficult for the Amazon rainforest to go up in smoke today than 20 years ago.
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