Environmental crisis of Vastallos

The environmental crisis currently happening in Vastallos is a serious problem being studied by the CBERO that is affecting players in Vastallos.

There are currently 3 major problems involved in this crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, mass extinction

Deforestation
Vastallos had once a 75% forest cover, with 4 types of forests spread all over the sub-continent. Now, Vastallos has lost almost 40% of all the native forest cover with only some fragmented pockets remaining. Meaning that if deforestation continues at this rate, Vastallos might lose all of its forests in 4-5 months in real life. And deforestation has come so far to even push the dark oak and birch and oak forests to almost extinction.

If we lose the forests of Vastallos, we could lose more than 6 extremely important resources to our modern society, such as bees, wood, sugar, coal, cocoa and many mobs that spawn exclusively into forest biomes. And replanting forest from nothing could result in dead forests, meaning that even the forests being replanted, animals would already be extinct and will not respawn. Native tribes would also be seriously affected with loss of resources and habitable space.

Fragmentation
If we are gonna help the forests of Vastallos we must make sure that they are not fragmented, meaning they should be connected so wildlife can spawn and natural processes can happen. right now we have more than 12 fragmented pockets which could be joined together.

Degradation
Habitat degradation means when natural processes in a habitat are reduced, such as thinning the forest, making less space for bees and cocoa to spawn. Planting more tress inside a degraded forest and covering the forest floor with more flowers, bushes and so on can help the forest to heal

Biodiversity loss
The server has already a low mob density, difficulting the access to meat, wool, milk, eggs and other animal resources, but destroying the forests of Vastallos will only make this problem worse, and buying a lot of animals is also very expensive to the normal citizen. So protecting the biodiversity of Vastallos is something really important. Capturing some animals to make sure the species doesnt go extinct is really important and should be done.

Mass Extinction
With researches from CBERO, Vastallos will enter a mass extinction event if the forest cover drops to an alarming 30-40% or the forests are further degraded and fragmented. More than 10 cataloged species are critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable such as titan bees, vastallosi white wolf, ocelots, wild highcat and the vastallosi panda. If we reach the red zone of deforestation at least half of them would go completely extinct or be extirpated from Vastallos.

Overview
If immediate help is not sent to the vastallosi ecosytem, it might collapse, and it might be an one way street. But not all hope is lost, if we preserve some parts of the forests, we can preserve these resources for next generations.

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created by caiorod001

data gathered by CBERO