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on the percentage stated above. The funding for these protected areas, PA's, is insufficient and hard to keep. A new method called
Payments for environmental services, PES, is reliable and cost friendly. In the future, PES can also provide protected areas with more funding so they can preserve the biodiversity of these forests better. The goal of PES is to provide better water services and cleaner water to save these forests. Two reason biodiversity PES is such a desirable new method are that it creates a new way of financing, and it can be sustainable based on the agreement of service users and providers.
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habitat losses in
Central America. The study concluded in this source is to show if deforestation is happening in these protected areas due to vegetation loss from drug-trafficking. The data collected is in the arrangement of EVI, enhanced vegetation index. The study was conducted in Laguna del Tigre National Park from 2002 to 2020. The results showed that EVI trends were reduced and had a loss of vegetation. This issue can be called "narco-deforestation." Although narcotics are not the main reason for deforestation, they definitely play a major part of this issue and need to be resolved.
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made to protect the forests, the soil will continue to be negatively impacted, thus impacting how well plants will grow and what type of plants will grow. As changes in the soil continue, plants will no longer be able to thrive in their homeland, which will decrease the overall biodiversity in
Guatemala. If no changes are made, the rich biodiversity of the country will soon fade away.
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deforestation may cause. With the increase in the need for schools, agricultural land, and businesses in
Guatemala due to the desperate need for financial support and stability, deforestation seems inevitable, and there is little that the country can do to help sustain the biodiversity in the country.
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Guatemala is covered greatly by forests, they still have a deforestation rate of 1.7%, showing that these areas are under a big threat. There have been many conversations about whether or not these protected forests are actually safe from these threats. It seems as though they are not based
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A main problem that this change in land use has caused in
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Guatemala helps flourish biodiversity extremely, but based on an article published in 2022, narcotics and drug-trafficking are having a major impact on deforestation. Due to drug trafficking and producing live stock for money laundering, there have been many
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