At El Hatico farm in Cali, Colombia, Carlos Hernando Molina has transformed traditional cattle farming by implementing silvopasture over the last three decades. This method integrates trees with livestock, creating a shaded environment that enhances the cows' quality of life and boosts productivity, almost doubling their numbers per hectare. As deforestation driven by cattle farming threatens the Amazon rainforest, researchers like Tim Searchinger advocate for sustainable practices like these, along with reducing beef and dairy consumption, as critical to preserving the ecosystem and mitigating climate change effects.
This is the best hotel for a cow. It's a hotel with controlled temperatures, very good quality food and the cows sleep placidly.
Since adopting this system, Molina says they've almost doubled the number of cows they raise per hectare and the dairy cattle make more milk.
Clearing land for cattle and cows is the single biggest driver of rainforest loss in the Amazon. Destroyed forests shrink habitats for endangered species.
Ultimately, reducing beef and dairy consumption has to be part of the solution for saving the Amazon and reducing climate pollution.
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