The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) of Brazil indicated that the deforestation rate in the Amazon grew by 32 percent during the month of July after registering 1,487 square kilometers of devastated native vegetation, being the highest reported so far in 2022.
The entity indicated that the area lost between August 2021 and July 2022, the reference period for the annual measurement, was 8,590 square kilometers, reports the TeleSur portal.
For its part, the Climate Observatory (OC) explained that this data is almost similar to that reported the same month last year, stating that the situation “remains very serious. In addition, a report revealed that Jair Bolsonaro is now the only president, since the beginning of satellite monitoring of the jungle (in 1988), to see deforestation grow during three consecutive years of his mandate ».
For the executive secretary of OC, Marcio Astrini, “it is another staggering number, but not surprising: the out-of-control deforestation in the Amazon is the result of a meticulous and very well-implemented strategy by Bolsonaro and his generals to dismantle socio-environmental governance in Brazil”.
For her part, the representative of the World Forum for Nature (WWF) in Brazil, Mari Napolitano, told an international agency that “between January and July there were about 5,470 square kilometers affected, which shows that deforestation stabilized at higher rates. quite high in this biome in recent years.”
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