O Governo brasileiro
Brazil wants to count trees in the Amazon rainforest
By Channtal Fleischfresser
February 11, 2013
Photo: Flickr/Nico Crisafulli
Brazil is home to roughly 60 percent of the Amazon, about
half of what remains of the world’s tropical rainforests. And now,
the country has plans to count its trees. A vast undertaking, the
new National Forest Inventory hopes to gain “a broad panorama
of the quality and the conditions in the forest cover”, according
to Brazil’s Forestry Minister Antonio Carlos Hummel.
The census, set to take place over the next four years,
will scour 3,288,000 square miles, sampling 20,000 points at
20 kilometer intervals and registering the number, height,
diameter, and species of the trees, among other data.
The initiative, aimed to better allocate resources to the
country’s forests, is part of a large-scale turnaround in Brazil’s
relationship to its forests. While it once had one of the worst
rates of deforestation in the world, last year only 1,797 square
miles of the Amazon were destroyed – a reduction of nearly 80%
compared to 2004.
(www.smartplanet.com. Adaptado.)
Brazil wants to count trees in the Amazon rainforest
By Channtal Fleischfresser
February 11, 2013
Photo: Flickr/Nico Crisafulli
Brazil is home to roughly 60 percent of the Amazon, about half of what remains of the world’s tropical rainforests. And now, the country has plans to count its trees. A vast undertaking, the new National Forest Inventory hopes to gain “a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in the forest cover”, according to Brazil’s Forestry Minister Antonio Carlos Hummel.
The census, set to take place over the next four years, will scour 3,288,000 square miles, sampling 20,000 points at 20 kilometer intervals and registering the number, height, diameter, and species of the trees, among other data.
The initiative, aimed to better allocate resources to the country’s forests, is part of a large-scale turnaround in Brazil’s relationship to its forests. While it once had one of the worst rates of deforestation in the world, last year only 1,797 square miles of the Amazon were destroyed – a reduction of nearly 80% compared to 2004.
(www.smartplanet.com. Adaptado.)
