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"From August 2020 to July 2021, a period known in Brazil as the “deforestation calendar,” the biome saw 10,476 km² of its forest being destroyed, an equivalent area the new times the city of Rio de Janeiro," Imazon said.
The Brazilian Amazon Institute of Man and Environment (Imazon) reported on Friday that deforestation in the rainforest hit the highest annual level in a decade, with a devastated area in July alone, larger than the city of Sao Paulo.
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"From August 2020 to July 2021, the period is known in Brazil as the “deforestation calendar”, the biome saw 10,476 km² of its forest being destroyed, an equivalent area the new times the city of Rio de Janeiro," Imazon said.
La devastación en la Amazonía brasileña viene avanzando a pasos largos en los últimos diez años. Solo en julio, 2.095 km² fueron deforestados, 80% más que en el mismo mes de 2020. El área es mayor que la ciudad de São Paulo!https://t.co/5aXIIqPioQ
— Imazon (@Imazon) August 20, 2021
The institute has been monitoring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 2008. According to Imazon the 12 months from July 2020 to the present, reported the highest devastation since 2012.
One of Amazon's latest studies reveals that in the last 36 years Brazil has burnt over 20 percent of its territory. From August 2020 to July 2021 deforestation was 57 percent higher than the previous year during which 6,688 km² were devastated.
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Deforestation in #Brazil continues to skyrocket under the government of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. pic.twitter.com/WCs6CiGPE8
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) August 1, 2019
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