Standing forests to stop deforestation | Cantos do Sabiá

João Lucas França – Radio host and communicator for the Sabiá Center.

March 21 is the International Day of Forests, a date created by the United Nations to raise awareness of the importance of preserving what we have and conserving to rebuild what we have already lost.

When we think of forests, we immediately imagine a closed forest, or we think of the Amazon rainforest… And it’s true, we need to stop illegal deforestation and burning and defend this important biome! But forests go beyond the Amazon in Brazil.

The Caatinga, for example, is a unique biome on the planet and needs attention! The semi-arid region already suffers from natural degradation due to climatic conditions, but today it is also suffering the consequences of climate change.

Our Caatinga forest could become a veritable desert at a frightening rate. We need to think about climate change, global warming and also fires and deforestation!

Is there any way back? Can we still save our forests? It’s this urgency that we’re talking about today with Professor Aldo Sales! Zootechnician, specialist in ecology and environmental management, master in livestock innovations, doctor in ecosystem management! He is currently a professor in the Postgraduate Program in Environmental Technologies at the Pernambuco Institute of Technology.

Cantos do Sabiá is the Centro Sabiá’s Podcast! Weekly we discuss agroecology, sustainability and politics in the countryside and in the city! The podcast goes live every Monday, with the complete interview edition that originally made up the Center’s radio program. https://spoti.fi/31VtUj5