From: Cool Earth
The time has arrived to save the rainforest, after two decades of hand-wringing, according to Independent columnist Michael McCarthy.
He explains that the late 1980s marked the time when the world began to care more about taking efforts to save the rainforest.Greater awareness of issues relating to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and other at-risk areas, such as Indonesia, was a driving force behind this.
But Mr McCarthy claims that, in the past 20 years, little real action has taken place in the global effort to save the rainforest.
"At last, the wreck of the rainforests is being tackled," he writes as part of the publication's Countdown to Copenhagen feature.
This looks ahead to December, when the Copenhagen climate agreement is due to cement international efforts to tackle climate change and to take action on issues such as deforestation.
Also in the Independent recently was a photograph showing regeneration following deforestation in Indonesia.
The publication showed previously cleared sites with signs of new growth following efforts to replant palm oil trees in Kuala Cenaku.