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Deforestation in the Maranhão state, Brazil, in July 2016. The Amazon rainforest, spanning an area of 3,000,000 km 2 (1,200,000 sq mi), is the world's largest rainforest.It encompasses the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest on the planet, representing over half of all rainforests.
Before the 1960s, much of the forest remained intact due to restrictions on access to the Amazon beyond partial clearing along the river banks. [15] The poor soil made plantation-based agriculture unprofitable. The key point in deforestation of the Amazon came when colonists established farms in the forest in the 1960s.
The Amazon accounts for 14 million of the 284 million acres of soy plantations in Brazil. [48] While slash-and-burn can be controlled, unskilled farmers may end up causing wildfires. Wildfires have increased as the agricultural sector has pushed into the Amazon basin and spurred deforestation. [23]
The Amazon rainforest's eight countries held a summit in Brazil on Tuesday for the first time in 14 years, with plans to reach a broad agreement on issues from fighting deforestation to financing ...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell by more than half in November from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, with destruction hitting its lowest level for the month in at ...
The Amazon Fund has a Guidance Committee (COFA), responsible for setting guidelines and monitoring the results achieved, and a Technical Committee (CTFA), which is tasked with certifying the calculations made by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA) regarding the actual reductions in carbon emissions from deforestation.
Brazil's presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world's largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past four years under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Deforestation is defined as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). [14] Deforestation and forest area net change are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a given period. Net change, therefore, can be positive or ...