Brazilian Amazon Deforestation In February Record High For The Month - Up 62% YOY
Satellite images released by the Brazilian space agency INPEs DETER monitoring program show 199 square kilometers (77 square miles) of the Amazon rainforest was lost to deforestation last monththe highest rate recorded in February since the agency began keeping records in 2015 and a 62% increase from last year during the same month.
Environmentalists find the data particularly alarming since February is considered the rainy season in the Amazon and generally sees the lowest rates of deforestation throughout the year.
As Indigenous communities and global environmentalists have been sounding the alarm on the imperiled rainforest, deforestation has skyrocketed under Brazils right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. While the Amazon covers land in nine countries, approximately 60% of the forest lies in Brazil, which has reached its highest level of deforestation in more than a decade.
This absurd increase shows the lack of policies to combat deforestation and environmental crimes in the Amazon, driven by the current administration. The destruction just isnt stopping, said Romulo Batista of Greenpeace Brazil in a statement.
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