The deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has accelerated to the highest rate in more than a decade, the country's space agency said Monday. New data from INPE, the National Institute for Space Research, shows a significant rise in deforestation over the last year, which many attribute...
The official deforestation rate in Brazil, released by the PRODES satellite monitoring system, points out that 13,235 km², an area 17 times the size of New York City, was cleared in the Amazon between August 2020 and July 2021. On average, th
thehighest levelsince 2014. The higher rate of slaughter increases the risk of even more cattle-driven deforestation occurring in Brazil. As Chain Reaction Research (CRR) highlighted in areportlast September, the cattle industry is a major driver of deforestation in Brazil, which ...