How can dietary shifts and reductions in food waste contribute to reducing the pressure on the Amazon rainforest?

Much of the large intact forest landscapes have already been cut down, 72% in Indonesia and 60% in Papua New Guinea. • 8 percent are in Africa. Africa has lost ... Estimates place the current deforestation level of the Amazon at 17 percent, and its tipping point at 20-25 percent. Dec 2, 2022 ... Brazil, which holds about two-thirds of the Amazon, also leads the destruction. In almost four decades, 19% of its rainforest has been ... Oct 3, 2022 ... Regardless of these recent actions, the destruction has been immense ... “We had reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80 percent. Brazil has devoted increasing amounts of land to soy production. But has this come at the expense of forests? Has the Amazon been cleared to make room for it? Apr 17, 2025 ... Almost 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed so far. If this destruction continues, we may never find all the valuable ... Sep 18, 2023 ... Over the last 40 years, approximately 20% of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. This is equivalent to about 800,000 square ... Oct 8, 2024 ... The Amazon is at risk of reaching an irreversible tipping point. An estimated 17% of Amazon forests have been converted to other uses and an ... In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966–1975 to large-scale cattle ... Sep 5, 2022 ... Approximately 60 percent of the Amazon Basin is in Brazil, where Greenpeace Brazil has been working for 30 years to protect it. In the Brazilian ...