New June record for deforestation of Brazilian Amazon
By AFP
Published July 9, 2021
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record in June for the fourth consecutive month, according to official data released Friday.
A total of 1,062 square kilometers of forest was destroyed — an area almost the size of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
This was up from 1,043 km2 in the same month last year, said the INPE research institute, which uses satellite images to measure forest cover.
In total, 3,609 km2 of Amazon was lost in the first quarter of 2021, up 17 percent from the same period last year.
The figure was the highest for a month of June since the INPE started gathering data in 2015.
Since coming to power in 2019, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has promoted the commercialization of the Amazon and described NGOs trying to protect the jungle as a “cancer.”
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