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2020年1月10日 · Australia experiences fires during its summer, which runs from December to March, but this year's crisis — which comes on the heels of a heat wave and prolonged drought — is unprecedented. The fires that plagued the Brazilian Amazon this year, by comparison, burned through 17.5 million acres of rainforest.

2020年1月8日 · Sussan Ley, Australia’s environment minister, has said that up to 30% of koalas on the NSW mid-north coast may have perished because “up to 30% of their habitat has been destroyed”. She added that the true impact on threatened koala populations won’t be fully understood until the fires stop and “a proper assessment can be made”.

2020年12月4日 · The Amazon is undoubtedly the world’s largest single rainforest covering 6.7 million kilometres at present, hosting up to 10% of the world’s biodiversity in one single forest. Others include the Congo rainforest in Central Africa, the second largest rainforest, as well as Southeast Asian Rainforests covering Indonesia, Laos and Cambodia.

2022年11月10日 · The second largest rainforest is in the Congo Basin which drains an area of 3.7 million square kilometres. Most of the Congo rainforest is within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Deforestation of the region has been increasing in recent years, with 6 million hectares of primary forest lost between 2002 and 2019.

2024年2月8日 · Six technologies are critical for climate adaptation, according to the World Economic Forum’s new report, Innovation and Adaptation in the Climate Crisis.

2024年2月9日 · Indigenous people across the world are being disproportionately hit by the impact of climate change on their ancestral lands.

2025年1月20日 · Her company, Indigital, founded in 2014, was Australia’s first Indigenous EdTech company and has now transformed into an Indigenous-led, social impact and community engagement company. Jade is a World Economic Forum Global Future Council member, a UN Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues delegate and an awardee of the 2022 Schwab …

2023年8月7日 · The World Resources Institute says that in the Amazon rainforest, patrols by Indigenous people have successfully stopped illegal logging. In Suriname, Indigenous people took the initiative to declare 7.2 million hectares of rainforest as the South Suriname Conservation Corridor , acting as rangers to ensure its protection.

2019年6月13日 · The National Forestry Fund was established in recognition that a healthy rainforest provides numerous benefits, which include removing and storing CO2 from the atmosphere, and water filtration. Tropical rainforests also harbour unknown quantities of natural resources that could be used to develop pharmaceuticals and natural medicines.