Record for deforestation in Brazil

Record for deforestation in Brazil

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full screen “Save the Amazon rainforest” it says on a poster that an activist holds up during a protest in São Paolo in June 2022. Photo: Andre Penner / AP / TT

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has broken a new record in the first six months of the year, according to Brazil’s National Space Research Institute (Inpe), which analyzes satellite images.

The world’s largest tropical rainforest has lost 3,750 square kilometers of jungle since the beginning of the year – the highest figure since such measurements began in 2016, according to Inpe.

President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged mining and agriculture in protected areas.

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