Protecting The Amazon Rainforest Averting The Ecological Tipping Point Indigenous leaders and artists lead a conversation on the global significance of the amazon biome by highlighting how california’s oil imports affect the future of the amazon rainforest and calling for 80% of the amazon to be permanently protected by 2025. Indigenous leaders and artists lead a conversation on the global significance of the amazon biome by highlighting how california’s oil imports affect the fut.
Protecting The Amazon Rainforest Averting The Ecological Tipping Point The amazon, sometimes called the "lungs of the planet," this year showed signs of further inching toward a much feared tipping point, threatening the very existence of the world's largest rainforest. rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaged large parts of the amazon in 2024. From slash and burn clearing for agriculture to wholesale cutting for cattle ranching, human activities are threatening to push the amazon rainforest past its tipping point, ultimately converting it to a carbon source instead of a carbon sink. When it rains on the amazonian forest landscape, at least 75% of the moisture is returned to the westward moving air mass. the rainforest recycles the moisture five to six times before it turns southward, feeling the proximity of the high wall of the andes. The amazon rainforest, the world’s most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem, plays a critical role in global climate regulation (mitchard, 2018). however, human activities and climatic extremes are increasingly threatening the forest’s integrity and the services it provides, leading to tipping cascades.
Scientists Say Amazon Rainforest Is At Tipping Point And Parts Could When it rains on the amazonian forest landscape, at least 75% of the moisture is returned to the westward moving air mass. the rainforest recycles the moisture five to six times before it turns southward, feeling the proximity of the high wall of the andes. The amazon rainforest, the world’s most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem, plays a critical role in global climate regulation (mitchard, 2018). however, human activities and climatic extremes are increasingly threatening the forest’s integrity and the services it provides, leading to tipping cascades. As highlighted by carlos nobre and our late board member and renowned scientist tom lovejoy, this tipping point is where parts of the rainforest will convert into drier ecosystems due to disrupted precipitation patterns and more intense dry seasons, both exacerbated by deforestation and climate change. The stability of the amazon forest–climate equilibrium is being perturbed by a number of human drivers of change (e.g. deforestation, global warming, forest fires, higher co 2 concentrations, and increased frequency of droughts and floods). Beyond this tipping point, the amazon could effectively fail as a rainforest and begin to become a much dryer ecosystem, similar to a savannah. according to some studies, this tipping point would be reached when 20% to 25% of the forested area is lost to deforestation. The task of curbing deforestation in the amazon is monumental and urgent. to achieve it, the governments of the amazon basin must collaborate to create a shared vision for protecting forest.