In a few years the Amazon as we know it today may no longer exist. In 2020, 2.3 million hectares of primary forest were lost in the nine countries of the Amazon Basin. The tipping point refers to a threshold between 20-25% of deforestation and high degradation, leading to the possibility of a dieback of the entire ecosystem due to deforestation only in parts of the rainforest. Motion 129 (now WCC 2020 Resolution 129) to avoid the point of no return in the Amazon protecting 80% by 2025 is a ground-breaking and bold proposal to protect the largest tropical forest on Earth, and can be a model for other large ecosystems nearing similar tipping points. This is the main objective of the initiative Amazonia for life: protect 80% by 2025. Indigenous peoples of over 500 nationalities had a voice and a vote, and presented a viable solution based on science and ancient knowledge to avert the tipping point in Amazonia and respond to the planetary crisis.
The IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, September 2021, was the scene of a historic moment in the shaping of global politics.
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