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In 1960-1970, the country started to expand its infrastructure in empty areas of the country, to guarantee its occupation: at the time wars, colonizations and invasions of territories were common in the world, and Brazil wanted to ensure that the Amazon was not invaded by other countries on the grounds that it is an abandoned region, without human occupation.
Much of this increase in Brazil, as well as the countries it precedes, is caused by rapid deforestation and industrialization. This has been noted by Carlos Minc , Brazil's Environment Minister, who states that as protected areas are populated by humans, preservation areas are lacking the essential protection they need. [ 10 ]
By 2005, forest removal had fallen to 9,000 km 2 (3,500 sq mi) of forest compared to 18,000 km 2 (6,900 sq mi) in 2003 [114] and on July 5, 2007, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced at the International Conference on Biofuels in Brussels that more than 20 million hectares of conservation units to protect the forest and more ...
Extensive legal and Illegal logging destroys forests the size of a small country per year, and with it a diverse series of species through habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation. [1] In Brazil forest cover is around 59% of the total land area, equivalent to 496,619,600 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, down from 588,898,000 hectares (ha ...
Brazil has lost 90–95% of its Mata Atlântica forest. [67] Deforestation in Brazil increased by 88% for the month of June 2019, as compared with the previous year. [68] However, Brazil still destroyed 1.3 million hectares in 2019. [7] Brazil is one of several countries that have declared their deforestation a national emergency.
Depiction of deforestation of Brazil's Atlantic Forest, circa 1820. The environmental history of Latin America has become the focus of a number of scholars, starting in the later years of the twentieth century. But historians earlier than that recognized that the environment played a major role in the region's history.
In 2009, two-thirds of the world's forests were located in just 10 countries: Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, China, Australia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, India, and Peru. [2] Global annual deforestation is estimated to total 13.7 million hectares a year, similar to the area of Greece. Half of the area ...
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