Indigenous tribes say effects of climate change already felt in Amazon rainforest
"Fire is different now. When I was little, people didn’t burn like now. The sun didn’t get as hot as it does now. It always burned and went out," stated Lahussia Juruna of the Xingu Indigenous Park in an interview. "Now, people set fire and it gets away and there’s a big fire. Before it would burn the savanna but didn’t burn the forest."
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"The sustainability of indigenous lands and protected areas also depends on sustainable sources of finance," the authors write. "REDD+ and payment for ecosystem services, whether from public or private sources, have often been proposed as options. A rough estimate, based on modeling of the gradual, bottom-up development of carbon markets from 2015 to 2030 suggests that the value of the Xingu indigenous lands and protected areas under a national emissions trading system might approximate $42 million per year."
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