Colombia's Amazon rainforest 'has lost area size of Wales despite 250m from UK to limit deforestati

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia’s Amazon rainforest ‘has lost area size of Wales despite £250m from UK to limit deforestation’
Farmers said that the UK-funded ‘incentive’ has not been enough to stop deforestation

Lamiat Sabin
3 hours ago



Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia
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An area “larger than Wales” has been lost from the Amazon rainforest in Colombia to growing levels of cattle farming, it has been reported.

Britain has sent almost £250 million – at a time of the government making cuts to the international aid budget – to fund projects aimed at preventing deforestation in Colombia by providing local people with a financial alternative to cattle farming.

The money was given to the Colombian government’s “Vision Amazonia” programme, that was launched in 2016, which is currently supported by Britain, Germany and Norway.

The scheme aimed to stop deforestation by incentivising communities in the rainforest to use the Amazon’s resources more sustainably.

But some members of the indigenous Tucano community in Chiribiquete – the world’s largest tropical national park, in Colombia – have said huge areas of the rainforest are still being chopped down and burned to make way for cattle ranches, according to a Channel 4 News investigation.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/colombia-amazon-rainforest-uk-deforestation-b1943639.html

[secondwind]

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