Sun 05 September 2021:
The Amazon rainforest in South America shrank by 4,640 square kilometers (1,791.51 square miles) in the past year, which is more than the territory of Brazil’s largest city of Sao Paulo, the G1 portal said on Sunday, citing the national forest monitoring system.
The system used the data obtained by satellites and the studies on monitoring and exploitation of the Amazon jungle from July 2020 to July 2021.
Launched campaign
Indigenous groups are urging world leaders to back a new target to protect 80 percent of the Amazon basin by 2025, saying bold action is needed to stop deforestation pushing the Earth’s largest rainforest beyond a point of no return.
Amazonian delegates launched their campaign on Sunday at a nine-day conference in Marseille, France, where several thousand officials, scientists and campaigners are laying the groundwork for United Nations talks on biodiversity in the Chinese city of Kunming next year.
“We invite the global community to join us to reverse the destruction of our home and by doing so safeguard the future of the planet,” Jose Gregorio Diaz Mirabal, lead coordinator for COICA, which represents Indigenous groups in nine Amazon-basin nations, told the Reuters news agency.
In April, President Jair Bolsonaro, repeatedly criticized for record-hitting rates of deforestation, pledged to quell illegal deforestation in less than a decade and issued a decree that ordered to deploy the military to Amazonia to fight environmental crimes.
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