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Deforestation in Brazil has been linked with an extractive economic growth model that relies on factor accumulation (labor, capital, land) rather than total factor productivity, where Brazil's frontier expansion in the "arc of deforestation" is a manifestation of land accumulation. [22]
Deforestation in the Gurupi Biological Reserve, Maranhão state, 2016. Deforestation in Brazil is a major issue; the country once had the highest rate of deforestation in the world. By far the most deforestation comes from cattle ranchers that clear rainforest (sometimes illegally, sometimes legally), so as to make room for sowing grass and ...
Deforestation in the Maranhão state, Brazil, in July 2016 The Amazon rainforest , spanning an area of 3,000,000 km 2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest . It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests.
That puts Brazil in line with the larger goals of the COP26 climate conference, where 145 nations in 2021 vowed to stop deforestation by 2030. World progress toward that goal is halting, however.
Deforestation in Brazil — which threatens the Amazon Rainforest, pictured above, — could hit an all-time low in the next 1-2 years, one government official said this week. (Reuters/Ueslei ...
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. In the past 12 months, the Amazon ...
English: Vertical bar chart showing deforestation rates in Brazil beginning in 1988, in conjunction with Brazil's presidents during respective time periods. Archive as of 11 Dec 2024 for data source: https://archive.ph/UNeOP; Data source: Taxas de desmatamento (Deforestation rates). TerraBrasilis (2022). Archived from the original on 29 October ...
After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to government ...