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Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have slowed dramatically since peaking in 2004 at 27,423 square kilometers per year. By 2009, deforestation had fallen to around 7,000 square kilometers per year, a decline of nearly 75 percent from 2004, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas ...
For Brazil, and the countries that precede it, high rates of deforestation, industrialization, and urbanization explain the growing number of endangered species in extremely bio-diverse areas. According to Carlos Minc, Brazil's Environment Minister, protected areas are increasingly populated by humans and preservation areas are lacking the ...
According to INPE data, the indigenous territory ended 2020 as the fourth most deforested in the country. [8] In July 2021, Operation Samaúma, conducted jointly by Ibama, FUNAI, the Federal Police and the National Public Security Force, destroyed two facilities and a bridge related to deforestation and illegal mining in the TI. Furthermore ...
The area deforested in Brazil's Amazon reached a 15-year high after a 22% jump from the prior year, according to official data published Thursday. The National Institute for Space Research’s ...
Last year, Brazil and Colombia helped drive the rate of tropical forest loss towards a 9 percent decrease from the 2022 level, but those gains were largely offset by deforestation in other places ...
Brazil’s deforestation surveillance year runs from August 1 to July 30. Still, much remains to be done to end the destruction and the month of July showed a 33% increase in tree cutting over ...
This trend gives hope to Amazon. Deforestation reduction in Brazil (59%) which is the main cause of the trend is probably due to Lula's environmental policy. In Columbia, the rate of deforestation fell by 66.5% probably due to the policies of Gustavo Petro and a change in the policies of former guerrilla fighters that control part of the forest ...
Brazil could reach historically low levels of deforestation in one to two years, the head of the environmental protection agency said on Thursday, as the country ramps up conservation efforts ...