We can call Norway wise fairy? Because the country deserves it! In September 2018, the Norwegian government banned deforestation and tree cutting across the entire national territory and beyond! They surprised the world by also banning the purchase of any product from abroad that has contributed to deforestation. An example for society, isn’t it?
But every action has a reaction, and comes the second part of the initiative. According to the United Nations (UN), meat, soy, wood and palm oil are the products responsible for almost half of the deforestation of the planet’s tropical forests. But the Norwegian parliament has committed to finding a way to supply these four essential products without impacting the environment. Quite a challenge!
The decision originated from the promise to promote efforts to reduce the cutting of trees, signed by the country with Germany and the United Kingdom during the UN Climate Summit, in 2014, although Norway was the only country to put the idea into practice. practice so far.
“Forests are home to more than 80% of all terrestrial species. Most of this biodiversity is concentrated in tropical forests. There are estimates that tropical forests may be home to more than half of the terrestrial species on the planet, most of them living in the canopy of trees. If the current rate of deforestation continues, tropical forests will disappear within 100 years, causing unknown effects on the global climate and wiping out most plant and animal species on the planet,” warned NASA’s Earth Observatory.
So we hope that many other countries (including ours) will be inspired by Norway – ecological fairy – so that deforestation decreases and does not harm the habitat of several species, and even ours, which is also affected by the chain – in case human beings do not remember…