Top Tweets for #Deforested
🌳🪵 It cannot be over-emphasized that the *first cause* of a massive increase in the volume of the #Ogunpa and other #Ibadan #rivers during downpours,
is the sprawling #urbanization along their #deforested #banks and #floodplains leading to copious amounts of stormwater run-off,
with no vegetation to mop it up,
pouring into the river channels.
River channels and bridge supports clogged with solid waste may reduce the hydraulic capacity of the channel and its cross structures,
dam the river flow,
and lead to sudden #flood #disasters,
*but the initial driver is over-the-top stormwater run-off*.
(Top image shows Yejide Bridge near #Ibadan Grammar School just before the start of a moderate 40 minute downpour
Bottom image shows swollen, turbulent #Ogunpa, having received its Kudeti tributary a few metres earlier, just 30 minutes into the downpour, May 2026)
🌳🪵 It is entirely possible that one #Oyo #State #administration after another has not fully understood that the massive swelling of the #Ogunpa and other #Ibadan #rivers during downpours is *not* achieved by rain water falling *directly into the river channel* from the clouds above.
It is also possible that they didn't understand that the strict #setback #limits,
and the instructions to #plant #trees and #restore #green #vegetation on either side of the concrete channels,
and to keep the #Ogunpa #Forest #Reserve #intact,
as laid out in the #Ibadan #City #Master #Plan and World Bank-funded #Ibadan #Urban #Flood #Management #Project,
were meant to *reduce* the amount of rainwater cascading off impervious surfaces into the Ibadan rivers.
*Why else* might they have spent millions to build concrete shops on top of the Ogunpa's concrete lining?
*Why else* would they *still* be issuing building permits for more market stalls on top of the concrete channels?
*Why else* would they have decided to replace a 5000 tree, stormwater run-off reducing forest, with a 200 plot concrete housing estate?
(Image shows 1st #Ogunpa Market Bridge and existing market, preparations for more market stalls on top of the concrete lining in the foreground, June 2026)
📷 #Ijala chant on 1980 #Omiyale by #Yoruba #poet O.Foyanmu
🌳🪵If we had not built on its #floodplains
If we had not #deforested and #urbanized the hills flanking it
If we had not #choked its #shallow #channel with #solid #waste
the #Ogunpa might...
⏭️
Multiply that by the current exchange rate and you get a more accurate idea of the scale of the #devastation caused by the 1980 #Omiyale.
IT WAS COLOSSAL BY ANY STANDARDS
🌳🪵 This means that 1 hectare or 10 LARGE PLOTS WITHIN BAYWOOD ESTATE WILL BE FLOODED after 24 hours of moderate rainfall and multiple hectares after bigger storms.
🌳🪵 Dry season shot of Dejo Oyelese and Francis Okediji streets and the extensive sprawl of Old Bodija Estate, #Ibadan.
❤️ The epicenter of the
January 2024 blast
#explosion.
🤍 A corner of the
#deforested #Ogunpa
#Forest #Reserve
@AbiluTangwa https://t.co/Qt6jYamP5j… We need more people like @AbiluTangwa #AbiluTangwa to start #Agroforestry #SustainableFarming in the #Deforested so that food can be grown for the billions of #GlobalSouthNations #Deforestation #StopEcocide #StandForNature #SaveOurEarth #GrowYourOwnFood
#Brazil's Supreme Court is ready to rule on a request challenging a state law that ends tax breaks for grain traders banning #soy purchases from #deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest after a cut-off date.
https://t.co/kFuEcv7NsG
உலகம் முழுவதும் 63 லட்சம் எக்டர் காடுகள் 2023 ஆம் ஆண்டில் அழிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன!
#deforestedforest #forest ##deforested #tropicalrainforest #saveforest #saveenvironment #environmentnews #poovulaginnanbargal
#SindhHighCourt has restricted authorities from cutting down trees in #Sindh.
The #SHC should on any random day just travel on Hala-Hyderabad Road after sunset and see how many trucks loaded with wood of matures trees are seen.
Sindh is being #Deforested.
https://t.co/gtpexyYpNT
Permits called GTAs are vital for tracking illegal cattle from #deforested #Amazon areas
But most Brazilian 🇧🇷 states don’t release this data
We need more transparency to hold buyers and sellers accountable and prevent further deforestation
https://t.co/yUqdNL4t9E
🌿🌺 In this article, Fuzessy et al discuss the loss of species and functions in a #deforested megadiverse #tropicalforest. Learn more at https://t.co/dV5wRVaJ3x
#conservation #science #tropicalspecies #habitatdegradation
@BrewDog reports over 50% mortality for its highlands tree planting programme. Another example of planting the wrong trees in the wrong place? We need to have a debate about the dogma of the #deforested #moorlands of #scotland @NatureScot
In the last few years it is likely that #PepsiCo has been using in its production #palmoil from #deforested land claimed by the Shipibo-Konibo people in eastern #Peru, a new investigation has found.
https://t.co/jg5EWwP0yb
Studies estimated that nearly 2️⃣ million hectares of forests in the Peruvian Amazon have been #deforested in the last 20 years.
When discussing economic development, road infrastructure jumps out as a factor on the frontiers of deforestation.
Learn more: https://t.co/VCJP39A5Gs
Caquetá department (state) in #Colombia is facing rapidly increasing levels of #deforestation, threatening crucial buffer zones—land adjacent to protected #conservation areas. In 2020, it was the second most #deforested department in the country. 🌳
⚒ To fight this, some #farmers who reside within these buffer zones are embracing #agroforestry—the intentional integration of (typically native) plants into crop and animal farming systems to create environmental, economic and social benefits. 🌾
🌿 For these farmers, breeding stingless #bees of the #Melipona genus (native to the Amazon) is a promising endeavor. Melipona bees provide farmers with the ability to make a living, one that is mutually beneficial to both the farmer and the #environment. Efforts like this are crucial to preventing further deforestation, as they demonstrate what successful #sustainable #agriculture can look like in the region, encouraging more farmers to embrace the concept of agroforestry. 🐝
🌱⏩ Learn more about how breeding Melipona bees for sustainable income can fight deforestation in the Amazon rainforest here: https://t.co/ShC7Rc9CSA
#amazonrainforest #rainforest #sustainability #sustainableagriculture #sustainableincome #sustainableliving #stinglessbees #climatecrisis #climateaction #climatenow #climatechange #stopdeforestation #savetheamazon #savetherainforest #indigenouspeoples #traditionalknowledge #nature #conservation #reforestation #wildlife
New rule threatens #Cambodia’s #exports to the #EU.
The EUDR stipulates that #commodities cannot be grown from #land #deforested after 2020.
https://t.co/ygTjoNBFx1
Grace used to wake at 2am to collect firewood. She wouldn’t return much before 5pm because she lives in a heavily #deforested area of Nkhotakota District. Now she only collects firewood once per week because she has a #cookstove. This gives her time to get work too.
#Malawi
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