Deforestation continues, surging at year's end More than 13,235 square kilometers (5,110 square miles) of rainforest — an area three times the size of the city of São Paulo — was cleared between Aug. 1, 2020, and , according to data released by the Brazilian government in November.
Are the fires in the Amazon still burning?
“The critical pattern in the Brazilian Amazon continues to be that most of the major fires … are actually burning the remains of freshly cut areas,” Matt Finer, senior research specialist and director of MAAP, told Mongabay, “like a big smoking indicator of the current high deforestation problem in Brazil.”Aug 3, 2021
How much of the Amazon rainforest is gone 2021?
The country's space research agency monitoring system showed that the region lost over 5,100 square miles of rainforest — comparable to about the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut — between August 2020 to July 2021, according to data published on Thursday.
How is the Amazon rainforest doing 2021?
A report published by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) on Thursday estimated that 13,235 square kilometers (8,224 square miles) of forest was lost between August 2020 and July 2021. That's an increase of 22% from the previous year. Deforestation has increased in Brazil under Bolsonaro's rule.
Is the Amazon still burning?
Experts say this year is on track to be as bad as 2020, when fires razed more than 19 million acres of the world's largest tropical forest. Conservation advocates aren't counting on help from the government of Brazil, which is home to some 60 percent of the Amazon. Drier forests, naturally, are more likely to burn.
Is the Amazon rainforest still burning 2021?
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest hits 15-year high, data shows. A report published by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) on Thursday estimated that 13,235 square kilometers (8,224 square miles) of forest was lost between August 2020 and July 2021.