Why protect forests? If you have to choose between a destructive tradition that works in the short term, and a conservation strategy that is out of the ordinary and requires a little change in lifestyles, it is good to take stock of the real stakes of forest protection – those of Makay in Madagascar, of course!

What can we do concretely to have a positive, significant and rapid impact on global deforestation? Let’s see this without taboos, in order of importance.

Deforestation: awareness of this scourge was thought to have been around for a long time. . . But the fires that ravaged Brazil and Bolivia in the summer of 2019, as well as their resurgence in Indonesia, prove that we are continuing to reduce the few intact forests that remain on our planet. Let us take stock of the situation today and look at the causes of deforestation, continent by continent.