Amazon Rainforest cut off to build the motorway for the cop climate summit

For the Cop30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém, a new four-lane motorway is built by tens of thousands of amazon rainforest protected by hectares.

The aim is to facilitate traffic to the city, in which more than 50,000 people – including the world leaders of the world – are organized in November.

The state government advertises the “sustainable” references of the highway, but some locals and conservationists are outraged by the environmental impact.

The Amazon plays an important role in the absorption of carbon for the world and the provision of biological diversity, and many say that this deforestation contradicts the purpose of a climate summit.

Lush rainforest tops on both sides along the partially built street – a memory of what was there once. The protocols are stacked in the cleared country, which extends more than 13 km (8 miles) through the rainforest in Belém.

Excavators and machines carve through the forest floor and pave over wetlands to enable the road that cuts through a protected area.

Claudio Verequete lives about 200 m where the road is away. He achieved an income to harvest Açaí berries of trees that once occupied the room.

“Everything was destroyed,” he says, pointing to the clearing.

“Our harvest has already been shortened. We no longer have this income to support our family.”

He says he has not received compensation from the state government and is currently relating to savings.

He fears that the construction of this street will lead to more deforestation in the future, since the area is better accessible to companies.

“Our fear is that one day someone will come here and says: 'There is some money here. We need this area to build a petrol station or build a warehouse.' And then we have to go.

“We were born and grew up here in the community. Where are we going?”

In view of its walls, his community will not be connected to the street on both sides.

“There are no advantages for us who live on the side of the highway. There will be advantages for the trucks that go through. If someone gets sick and has to go to the center of Belém, we cannot use it.”

The street leaves two non -connected areas of the protected forest. Scientists are concerned that it will fragment the ecosystem and that the movement of the wildlife will disturb.

Prof. Silvia Sardinha is a veterinarian and researcher in a university hospital that overlooks the location of the new motorway.

You and your team rehabilitate wild animals with injuries that are mainly caused by humans or vehicles.

As soon as they are healed, let them go back to the wilderness – something she says becomes more difficult when a highway is on your doorstep.

“There is a loss from the moment of deforestation.

“We will lose an area to leave these animals back into the wilderness, the natural environment of these species,” she said.

“Landtiere can no longer switch to the other side and reduce the areas in which they can live and breed.”

The Brazilian President and Environment Minister say that this will be a historical summit because it is “a police officer in the Amazon, no police officer about the Amazon”.

The President says the meeting will offer the opportunity to concentrate on the needs of the Amazon, to show and to present the forest of the world to protect it to protect it.

But Prof. Sardinha says that these talks will “not heard at a very high level, among business people and government officials” who “not heard” in the Amazona.

The state government of Pará had already advertised the idea of ​​this highway in 2012, which is known as Avenida Liberdade, but was repeatedly put up due to environmental concerns.

Now a variety of infrastructure projects have been revived or approved to prepare the city for the cop summit.

Adler Silveira, the infrastructure secretary of the state government, listed this highway as one of 30 projects in the city to “prepare” and “modernize” it so that “we have a legacy for the population and above all serve people for COP30”.

In an interview with the BBC, he said it was a “sustainable highway” and “important mobility intervention”.

He added that it would have wild animals where animals could pass, bike paths and sun lighting. New hotels are also being built and the harbor is being renovated so that cruise ships can create there in order to record excess visitors.

The Brazilian federal government is investing more than $ 81 million (USD 62 million) to expand the airport capacity of “seven to 14 million passengers”. A new 500,000 square meter city park, Parque da Cidade, is under construction. It includes green spaces, restaurants, a sports complex and other facilities that the public can use afterwards.

Some business owners in the city's enormous open-air verpeso-peso market agree that this development offers the opportunity for the city.

“The city as a whole is improved, it is repaired and many people visit from other places. It means that I can sell more and earn more,” says Dalci Cardoso da Silva, who runs a leather shoe stand.

He says that this is necessary because when he was young, Belém was “beautiful, careful, well maintained”, but it has been “left” and “neglected” with “little interest from the ruling class” since then.

João Alexandre Trindade da Silva, who sells Amazon's herbal medication on the market, acknowledges that all construction work can cause problems, but he believed that the future effect would be worth it.

“We hope that the discussions will not only be on paper and in real actions. And the measures made, the decisions made are really put into practice so that the planet can breathe a little better so that the population will have a little clean air in the future.”

This will also be the hope of the world leaders who choose the COP30 summit.

The exam grows as to whether the flying of thousands of them all over the world and the infrastructure that is necessary to organize them undermines the matter.