🪶 As COP30 Belém nears, this study reminds us nature is not only about species counts but about energy and function. Restoring “ecological power” should guide climate and biodiversity talks. Energy flow is life flow. Leaders, listen.
#COP30Belem #Biodiversity #ClimateAction #NatureBasedSolutions

A new “ecosystem energetics” approach measures animal-driven energy flows in real units of power (kJ/m²/year). It links biodiversity intactness to living functions like seed dispersal and carbon cycling. It shows how wildlife literally powers the planet.
#EcosystemEnergetics #PlanetaryBoundaries

🐘 Elephant numbers fell from some 20+ million to under half a million since 1700. Rhinos, lions and other giants followed. Losing them reshapes how energy, water and nutrients move through land.

#Megafauna
#Wildlife
#Ecosystems
#Africa
#IUCN

🦓 Scientists tracked energy flow in almost 3,000 animal species across Africa. This is the first map showing how losing animals changes how nature works. Big herbivores like elephants lost over 70 percent of their “power”.

#Biodiversity
#Ecology
#Africa

Finance is never neutral. It shapes the futures it claims to fund.

🔥 TFFF is bold. It could finally fund real forest protection. But it also shows how unequal the system remains. Saving the planet should not depend on the same markets and debts that helped drive the crisis.
#TFFF #ClimateJustice #Rainforests #SystemChange

⚖️ Critics say the plan leans on an unfair system. Poor countries still repay debts. Some of that money feeds the fund that protects forests. It sounds fair, but it isn’t. The same system that trapped them in debt is now used to finance a global good.
#TFFF #DebtJustice #ClimateFairness #GlobalSouth

🪶 And who gets paid? Often not the people who guard the forest. Funds go to governments. Not to Indigenous or local custodians. Without clear rules, money can vanish into politics while those living with the trees see little change.
#TFFF #IndigenousRights #ForestCustodians #ClimateJustice

🌲 Loopholes remain. Selective logging, land reclassification, or shifting baselines can hide real losses. Forests may look intact from space while biodiversity and carbon quietly fade.
#TFFF #Forests #ClimateMonitoring #Loopholes #ForestLoss #ClimateIntegrity #Deforestation #Degradation

🛰️ Forest protection is tracked from space. Satellites and AI spot changes in forest cover, down to the hectare. Payments depend on proof: no deforestation, no degradation. Yet even with advanced tools, no system is foolproof.
#TFFF #Forests #AI #RemoteSensing #ClimateMonitoring #Costly #Complex

📉 TFFF runs on global markets. Investors put money in, and returns pay countries that keep their forests standing. But if markets crash, that flow stops. The fund loses value, payments freeze, and protection fails. One shock could break the model.
#TFFF #FinanceRisk #Rainforests #ClimateFunds

💰 “TFFF signals that forest protection is finally being treated as a global public good worthy of ambitious financial commitment. It is the best chance we have to fund a halt to tropical deforestation.”
--Matthew Owen, Cool Earth
#TropicalForests #Deforestation #ClimateAction

#Arnie