2 hours agoAmazon deforestation in Brazil reaches its highest level in 12 years
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Deforestation of the Amazon forests in Brazil has reached the highest level since 2008, the State Space Agency Inpe has announced. Forest areas have lost 11,088 square miles of vegetation in August 2019 July 2020, marking growth of 9.5 percent compared to the previous 12 months. [...]
Forest areas have lost 11,088 square miles of vegetation in the period of August 2019 July 2020, marking growth of 9.5 percent compared with the previous 12 months, the agency's data has shown.
Scientists say the Amazon has faced high-scale losses since Jair Bolsonaro started leading the state in 2019.
The Amazon forests are an extremely important region that slows down the road to global warming.
Since taking office nearly two years ago, Bolsonaro has encouraged expanding agricultural activities, even those for mines, in the largest forest area in the world.
This agency's data is preliminary, since official data will be released early next year.
In the past, Bolsonaro has crashed with this agency in terms of deforestation data.
Last year, he accused this body of damaging Brazil's image.
