{"id":13557,"date":"2022-02-25T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=13557"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:41:28","slug":"on-demand-deforestation-challenges-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2022\/02\/25\/on-demand-deforestation-challenges-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Deforestation: Challenges &#038; opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xj5HF2iWa-Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Data is increasingly showing us that a driving force behind the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic was deforestation. Deforestation is defined as \u201cthe permanent and intentional clearing of forested land by humans, often for agricultural expansion, timber harvesting for fuel or building materials, mining, and human settlement.\u201d Areas of forest can also become deforested during natural disasters like wildfires, tornadoes, and cyclones. As human activity begins to encroach on natural ecosystems, opportunities for cross-contamination of viruses between animals and humans skyrocket. If we don\u2019t begin to scale back the devastation of our natural resources and regenerate what\u2019s already been lost, we\u2019re setting ourselves up for a repeat of the situation we\u2019re in now.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? BU has faculty and alumni experts researching deforestation and the opportunities present to aid in the fight against climate change.<\/p>\n<h3>Moderator<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dr. Adil Najam<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Dean at Boston University, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Speakers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Les Kaufman<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Professor at Boston University, Marine Program<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anukool Lakhina (CAS&#8217;01, GRS&#8217;01, &#8217;07)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Co-Founder, Wonder Labs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty and alumni experts discuss opportunities present to aid in the fight against climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16028,"featured_media":14385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[265],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2022\/02\/deforestation-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Faculty and alumni experts discuss opportunities present to aid in the fight against climate change.","agg_title":"Deforestation: Challenges & opportunities","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14386,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557\/revisions\/14386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}