Ad
related to: amazon before and after deforestation articles this week images
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
After nine months in office, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has halved Amazon deforestation, which reached a 15-year high under predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, and has promised to promote ...
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.
The country lost 4300 sq km (1700 sq miles) of Amazon, a 46 percent decline, and the largest slowdown in deforestation since 2016, per the Associated Press. On the Cerrado, Brazil’s highly ...
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released Wednesday. In the past 12 months, the Amazon ...
English: Stacked horizontal bar chart showing percentages of deforestation and degradation in the Amazon rainforest, by country Source: Amazon Against the Clock: A Regional Assessment on Where and How to Protect 80% by 2025. Amazon Watch 8 (September 2022). Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. "Graphic 2: Current State of the Amazon ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose in July, breaking a 15-month streak of falling destruction under President Luiz Inacio da Silva, preliminary government data showed on ...
As of 2006 about 16% of the Amazon biome in Brazil had been deforested. [46] Satellite images show that in the 2006–11 period total deforestation in the Amazon biome was 45,100 square kilometres (17,400 sq mi), of which 34,700 hectares (86,000 acres) were in the three soy-producing states of Mato Grosso, Para and Rondonia.
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge ...