Two decades of accelerated deforestation in Peruvian forests : a national and regional analysis (2000-2020)
Móstiga Rodríguez, Maricel Jadith (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Armenteras, Dolors (Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Departamento de Biología)
Vayreda Duran, Jordi (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Retana Alumbreros, Javier (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)

Data:	2024
Resum:	The global tree cover has kept reducing in the last two decades, mainly in tropical forests, despite the global efforts to conserve biodiversity and the ecosystem services that provides. Considering South America is the region that had the highest rate of net forest loss (2000-2020), it is crucial to understand the deforestation dynamics of each country and their regions for the evaluation of effective national conservation actions. Here, we carried out a spatiotemporal analysis of the deforestation rates from 2000 to 2020 on a national and regional scale, including the forest loss inside protected areas, in Peru. It was found that Peru lost 3. 4 million ha of forest between 2000 and 2020, mainly in the Not Flooded Rainforest region. National deforestation rates accelerated, while within protected areas rates showed a very small increase. Regional deforestation rates followed the national pattern with one exception-the Coast region. Our results evidence the success of the national conservation strategy based on protected areas to avoid deforestation in all regions, except in the Andean. Moreover, the increment in deforestation rates is aligned with the growth in road infrastructure; increments in anthropic activities; and the more frequent and intense natural extreme events that vary according to the region. Therefore, it is urgent to differentiate the drivers of deforestation that operate at the national versus the regional scale, consider the inclusion of all forest types in the monitoring system, and the strengthening of policies related to land use change at all scales.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Tropical forest ; Rate ; Spatiotemporal analysis ; Global Forest Change (GFC) ; Protected areas ; Peru
Publicat a:	Regional environmental change, Vol. 24, issue 2 (June 2024) , art. 42, ISSN 1436-378X

DOI: 10.1007/s10113-024-02189-5

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