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Ackumulerat avverkades 4350 kvadratkilometer skog 2023, en minskning med 54 procent jämfört med 2022.
For the year to date, DETER has recorded 1,182 square kilometers of forest clearing, a decrease of 40 percent from the 1,986 square kilometers recorded at this point in 2023.
Warp News: 🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon reaches lowest level since 2018
The sharp decline in deforestation coincides with the term of Brazil’s current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was sworn into office in January 2023. A key talking point of President Lula’s campaign was the environment. In fact, he pledged to stop illegal logging and made a target of zero deforestation by 2030.
My Modern Met: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Reaches a Six-Year Low
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The alert data suggests observers should expect a sharp drop in deforestation for the 12 months ending July 31, the period Brazil uses for measuring annual deforestation. July 31 corresponds with the peak of the dry season across much of the Brazilian Amazon, when cloud cover is at a minimum, facilitating efforts to measure changes in forest cover.
Mongabay: Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in fires
Amazonas utgör mer än tio procent av världens skogar och brukar kallas världens lunga. Att avskogningen minskar där får stora positiva effekter på den globala uppvärmningen.
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- Warp News: 🌳 Deforestation in the Amazon reaches lowest level since 2018
- Mongabay: Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in fires
- My Modern Met: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Reaches a Six-Year Low
- Bildkälla: fotot är från mitt besök i bolivianska Amazonas i vintras, blir fortfarande peppad av allt liv där, underbart 🙂
