WHAT DO WE MEAN BY CONNECTIVITY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
The Amazon is a set of interconnected ecosystems and is home to a diversity of cultures that sustain interdependent relationships with ecosystems through practices and knowledge.
This connectivity, expressed in multiple dimensions, is the backbone that gives life to the Amazon and sustains natural cycles of water, nutrients, and carbon at local, regional, and global scales.
The loss of this connectivity triggers the disruption of terrestrial and atmospheric rivers, decreasing their effectiveness in transporting water, forest fragmentation, biodiversity decline, and the loss of knowledge.
The situation is critical: the Amazon is on the brink of the point of no return. This would have alarming ecological consequences, as well as unforeseeable impacts on health and the economy at all scales and in all sectors.