The deforestation in the Amazon Brazil’s rainforest slowed 22.3% in the 12 months to July, government data showed on Thursday, showing the smallest devastated area in the world’s largest rainforest since 2018.
Around 9,001 square kilometers of the jungle were cut down between August 2022 and July of this year, according to data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
The data, produced annually by INPE’s Prodes satellite monitoring program, is much more precise than the Deter alert system, which publishes weekly figures.
Destruction in the Amazon increased under the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro, which weakened environmental protection agencies and paved the way for the influx of gold miners, loggers and farmers who cleared the jungle.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who began his term earlier this year, made rebuilding the environmental protection system and reducing deforestation one of his government’s priorities.
Source: Reuters
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