Correa on deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle
Quito, Feb 13 (Prensa Latina) Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, warned about the increase of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon, which each year kills tens of thousands of hectares of forest for growing or dedicate to livestock. "The thing that destroys the Amazon is not oil or mining, but the growth of the agricultural frontier," said Correa in radio and television chain, which clarified that it can be countered with new farming techniques.
highlighted the work of the Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP), almost nonexistent at the beginning of this government, and very important because it develops more productive seeds and livestock feed, to produce more with new techniques.
This effort is especially important with the recent results of the "Baseline Deforestation in Ecuador", held in the past two years, which places the greatest loss of forest area in the north of the Amazon and south of the country. In 2008 Ecuador provided 9.5 million hectares of forests, 1.5 million fewer than in 1990. The government has set a goal to reforest one million hectares over the next 10 years.
Of these 9.5 million acres, four million already have coverage protected areas and the rest contained in conservation projects, as a partner Forest and other plans.
Between 2000 and 2008, Ecuador lost an average of 74 thousand 330 hectares of forest per year, which places the country slightly above the global average (70 thousand hectares per year).
These data were obtained through a complex study by the Ministry of Environment to raise the baseline of deforestation in the country, using satellite images to locate forests, crops and water bodies.
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