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7 hours agoBrazil loses about 10,000 square miles [10,000 sq km] of rain forest every year
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Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)About 9,760 square miles [9,760 sq km] of rain forests in Brazil were destroyed from August 2018 to July 2019, according to the Brazilian national agency INEP. This is almost 30 percent more than during the same period last year and the largest rain forest area [...]
This is almost 30 percent more than during the same period last year and the largest rain forest area recorded since 2008.
Environment Minister Ricardo Sales blames illegal economic activity for destroying large areas of rain forest, Kosovo Press broadcasts.
But environmental activists are pointing fingers at President Jair Bolsonar's government, which has opened large spaces of the world's largest forest to commercial exploitation.
The new data shows that destruction of Amazon rain forests is completely out of control,” said Roberto Maldonado of the World Fund for Nature Protection (WWF).
Brazil was hit by devastating forest fires earlier this year that contributed to the destruction of rain forests.
Called the “memory of planet”, Amazon rain forests play a major role in preventing global warming.
