Sat 21 August 2021:
Despite growing global concern over the rapid devastation since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has reached its highest yearly level in a decade, according to a new analysis.
Between August 2020 and July 2021, the rainforest lost 10.476 square kilometres, an area nearly seven times bigger than greater London and 13 times the size of New York City, reveals by Imazon, a Brazilian research institute that has been tracking the Amazon deforestation since 2008. The figure is 57 per cent higher than in the previous year and is the worst since 2012.
“Brazil is going against the global climate agenda that is seeking to urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
Souza further urged for the urgent resumption of government actions to stop the destruction. This includes measures like the enforcement of illegal agriculture-led deforestation in the region.
Marcio Astrini, the executive-secretary of the organisation Climate Observatory, said, “The data shows that it didn’t work”.
“No army operation will be able to mask or reverse the attacks of the federal government against the forest.”
Even as President Bolsonaro faces accusations of systematically dismantling environmental protections, Bolsonaro has deployed thousands of soldiers to combat illegal deforestation and fires.
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