Loss of rainforest at highest point since 2006 according to its government’s annual report
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest soared 22% in a year to the highest level since 2006, according to the government’s annual report, undercutting president Jair Bolsonaro’s assurances that the country is curbing illegal logging.
Brazil’s space research agency INPE recorded 13,235 square kilometres (5,110 square miles) of deforestation in the world’s largest rainforest in its PRODES satellite data during the official annual period from August 2020 through July 2021.
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